Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian-American economist, from Bengal, India, who is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". He, along with his wife Esther Duflo, are the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize.
