Abhijit V. Banerjee

Abhijit V. Banerjee is an Indian-American economist and Nobel laureate, awarded the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. He is the co-author of the landmark Poor Economics and Good Economics for Hard Times.

A professor at MIT and co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, Banerjee is a pioneer of randomised trials in development economics. His books bring rigorous evidence to bear on the world's most urgent economic questions, reaching both policymakers and general readers with unusual clarity and wit.