Bengali roots and a family in academia
Academic career and research
Nobel Memorial Prize and more
In July 2026, Abhijit Banerjee and his wife, Esther Duflo, will join the University of Zurich to establish a new center for development economics. The Lemann Center for Development, Education, and Public Policy is funded by a 26 million franc donation from the Lemann Foundation. While taking on this new role, the couple will maintain part-time positions at MIT , continuing their work at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.Abhijit Banerjee was born in Mumbai to a Bengali father and
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