Professor Amartya Sen awarded honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin

Professor Amartya Sen of Harvard University’s Economics Department was one of five recipients given an honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin on July 10.

He was awarded the degree of Doctor in Laws (LL.D) in a ceremony presided over by Dr. Mary Robinson, Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin and the former President of Ireland. On the same day, Professor Sen was also made an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until recently the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the Econometric Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association and the International Economic Association. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics in 1998 and is best known for his contributions and work on famine, human development theory and welfare economics.

A podcast of Professor Sen’s lecture “On Global Confusion” given on July 9, can be accessed via the website of the Trinity International Development Initiative.

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