Abhijit Banerjee, an American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019, was born in Mumbai, India in 1961.
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, born 21 February 1961 in India, is an Indian-born naturalised American economist who is now the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019 alongside Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to eliminating global poverty." He and his wife, Esther Duflo, are the sixth married couple to share a Nobel Prize. Banerjee is a founding member of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
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