Amartya Kumar Sen is an economist and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on famine, human development theory, and the underlying mechanisms of poverty.
He currently is Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and include " Collective Choice and Social Welfare," " On Economic Inequality," " Poverty and Famines," and " Choice, Welfare and Measurement."