Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen is an Indian economist, university teacher, philosopher, and writer born on 3 November 1933 in Santiniketan. He holds citizenship in India, the United Kingdom, the Dominion of India, and the British Raj. Sen is an atheist who speaks English and Bangla. His notable work includes *Development as Freedom*. He has been recognized in the Nobel Economics collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Sen was educated at the University of Calcutta, Trinity College, Visva-Bharati University, and the University of Cambridge. He studied under Joan Robinson and later taught at Harvard University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Jadavpur University, and the University of Delhi. He holds the academic degree of professor. His doctoral student was Kaushik Basu.

He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Econometric Society. Sen has been married to Nabaneeta Dev Sen and Emma Georgina Rothschild. They have children named Antara Dev Sen and Nandana Sen. His relatives include Eugenio Colorni and Ursula Hirschmann. He has an Erdős number of 4.