Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (Bengali pronunciation: [oβid͡ʒit bænard͡ʒi]; born 21 February 1961) is an Indian American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), an MIT based global research center promoting the use of scientific evidence to inform poverty alleviation strategies.