Key facts
- Born
- 3 November 1933, Santiniketan
- State of birth
- Santiniketan, West Bengal
- Sector
- Banking & finance
- Profession
- Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
- Gender
- Male
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Biography
Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. He has also made major contributions to social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and the measures of well-being of countries.
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Timeline
- 1933Born in Santiniketan
- 1954Awarded the Adam Smith Prize
- 1968Awarded the Fellow of the Econometric Society
- 1987Awarded the honorary doctor of Caen University
- 1994Awarded the honorary doctor of the University of Valencia
- 1995Awarded the honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp
- 1997Awarded the Catalonia International Prize
- 1997Awarded the Edinburgh Medal
- 1998Becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
- 1998Awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
- 1998Awarded the honorary doctorate of the University of the Mediterranean - Aix Marseille II
- 2000Awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought
- 2002Awarded the honorary doctorate from University of Grenoble-II
- 2002Awarded the honorary doctorate
- 2007Awarded the Global Economy Prize
- 2007Awarded the Meister Eckhart Prize
- 2007Awarded the honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
- 2009Awarded the honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
- 2011Awarded the National Humanities Medal
- 2013Awarded the honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Paris
- 2016Awarded the Albert O. Hirschman Prize
- 2017Awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science
- 2017Awarded the honorary doctor of the University of Miami
- 2018Awarded the honorary doctor of Waseda University
- 2019Awarded the Bodley Medal
- 2020Awarded the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association
- 2020Awarded the honorary doctorate of Paris Nanterre University
- 2021Awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
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