Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee is an Indian American development economist who shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach to reducing global poverty. He co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, where he taught for decades, and in July 2026 he joined the University of Zurich, where he and Duflo co-lead the new Lemann Center for Development, Education and Public Policy.