Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian American economist who is currently the Lemann Foundation Professor in Economics at the University of Zurich (UZH). 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. In 2019, Banerjee shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." He and Esther Duflo are married, and became the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel or Nobel Memorial Prize on economic sciences. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019, announced October 14, 2019. Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer, “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. Abhijit Banerjee: born 1961, Mumbai, India. Esther Duflo: born 1972, Paris, France. Michael Kremer: born 1964, New York, NY, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).