He received his school education in South Point High School, a renowned educational institution in Calcutta. His father, Dipak Banerjee, earned a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics. His father, Dipak Banerjee, was a professor of economics at Presidency College, Calcutta, and his mother Nirmala Banerjee (née Patankar), a professor of economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Early life and education Ībhijit Banerjee was born to a Bengali family in Mumbai. He and Esther Duflo, who are married, are the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize. Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2019)Ībhijit Vinayak Banerjee ( pronounced born 21 February 1961) is an Indian-American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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