Professor Amartya Sen
Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
BA, MA, PhD, Bharat Ratna, CH, FBA, DLitt (Hon), DSc (Hon), D Law (Hon), DU (Hon)
Honorary Fellow since 2012
Amartya Sen taught Economics, Philosophy, History and Law at Harvard (as Thomas W. Lamont University Professor), authored An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin and Princeton University Press) jointly with Jean Drèze, and published a number of articles in professional journals and in the public media.
- Honorary Fellow, All Souls College (from 2012)
- Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College (from 2005 to 2012)
- Master, Trinity College, Cambridge (from 1998 to 2004)
- Professor of Economics and Philosophy, and Lamont University Professor, Harvard University (from 1988 to 1998)
- Drummond Professor of Political Economy and Professorial Fellow, All Souls College (from 1980 to 1988)
- Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford (Associate Member, 1980-9; Honorary Fellow, 1998) (from 1977 to 1980)
- Professor of Economics, London School of Economics (from 1971 to 1977)
- Professor of Economics, Delhi (Chairman, 1966-8; Honorary Professor, 1971 onwards) (from 1963 to 1971)
- Staff Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (from 1961 to 1963)
- Prize Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (from 1957 to 1961)
- Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University (from 1956 to 1958)
- Undergraduate, Cambridge University (from 1953 to 1955)
- Welfare economics
- Social choice theory
- Development economics
- Moral and political philosophy
- Decision theory
- George C. Marshall Award (2005)
- Eisenhower Medal (2000)
- Honorary President, Oxfam (from 1999 to 2002)
- Nobel Prize in Economics (1998)
- Edinburgh Medal (1997)
- President, American Economic Association (1994)
- President, Indian Economic Association (1989)
- President, International Economic Association (from 1986 to 1989)
- President, Econometric Society (1984)