Amartya Sen is an Indian philosopher and economist, and has contributed immensely to Human Development theory. He was born in Manikganj (present in Bangladesh), British India but has worked in India, the United Kingdom and the United States for close to 50 years. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and member of faculty at Harvard Law School.

Sen is a First Class graduate of Presidency College in Kolkata where he bagged a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. He earned another Bachelor’s degree in Pure Economics from Trinity College where he also graduated with a First Class degree then went on to get his Ph.D from University of Cambridge.

Being regarded as the greatest Indian economist of all time and one of the leading intellectual thinkers across the world, Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 and India's Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his work in welfare economics. He is also a Fellow and former Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and in 2004, was ranked number 14 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time.