in Economic Sciences for his work on welfare economics. He is currently the
Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy
at Harvard University. He is also a fellow of Trinity College at the University
of Cambridge, where from 1998 to 2004 he was Master, the first Indian academic
to head an Oxbridge college.
He is known as "the Conscience of Economics" for his work on famine, human
development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty,
gender inequality, and political liberalism.
Amartya Sen's books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is
a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. He has received over 80 honorary
doctorates. In the year 2010, Time magazine listed him among the 100 most
influential persons in the world.
