Abhijit Banerjee is the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics recipient along with his wife, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer, he was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003, he founded the Abdul Latif Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan, and he remains one of the lab’s directors. Abhijit Banerjee is a past president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economics Analysis of Development, a Research Associate of the NBER, a CEPR research fellow, an International Research Fellow of the Kiel Institute, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Slogan Fellow and a winner of the Infosys prize. He is the author of a large number of articles and four books, including Poor Economics, which won the Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. The newest book, co-authored with Esther Duflo, titled Good Economics for Hard Times, is on how economics can help us solve the social and political problems of our day. He is the editor of three more books and has directed two documentary films. Also served on the U.N. Secretary–General’s High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.