아브히지트 바네르지

소개

아브히지트 비나약 바네르지(Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, 벵골어: অভিজিৎ বিনায়ক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, 1961년 2월 21일 ~ )는 인도계 미국인 경제학자이다. 2019년에 지구촌의 빈곤 문제를 경감하기 위한 실험적 접근과 연구를 한 공로로 에스테르 뒤플로, 마이클 크레이머와 함께 노벨 경제학상을 수상했다.

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), an MIT based global research center promoting the use of scientific evidence to inform poverty alleviation strategies. In 2019, Banerjee shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." He and Esther Duflo are married, and became the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel or Nobel Memorial Prize.