Amartya Sen

The predecessor to Banerjee of being an Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Economics is Amartya Sen. Sen won the award in 1998 for his work in welfare economics.

Sen was born in Shantiniketan in West Bengal. Interestingly, Sen was given his name by another Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who was a close associate of his maternal grandfather.

Sen too had graduated from Presidency College, before becoming a professor in Jadavpur University in Kolkata. He had then gone on to teach at institutions like Trinity College, London School of Economics and many more.