1972 - Today
Esther Duflo Banerjee, FBA (French: [dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French–American economist who is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is the co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), founded in 2003 and supported by Community Jameel; holds the Poverty and Public Policy chair at the Collège de France since 2022; and is president of the Paris School of Economics since 2024. She shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".Duflo is a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) research associate, a board member of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research's development economics program. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Esther Duflo has received more than 1,677,093 page views. Her biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Esther Duflo is the 276th most popular economist (down from 210th in 2019), the 3,862nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,020th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Economist.
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Among economists, Esther Duflo ranks 276 out of 315. Before her are Haruhiko Kuroda, Mark Blaug, James Wolfensohn, Gordon Tullock, Deirdre McCloskey, and Max O. Lorenz. After her are Nouriel Roubini, Robert Barro, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Karl Knies, and Michael Kremer.
1944 - Present
HPI: 48.43
Rank: 270
1927 - 2011
HPI: 48.33
Rank: 271
1933 - 2020
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 272
1922 - 2014
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 273
1942 - Present
HPI: 48.15
Rank: 274
1876 - 1959
HPI: 48.14
Rank: 275
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 276
1958 - Present
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 277
1944 - Present
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 278
1927 - 2005
HPI: 47.51
Rank: 279
1940 - Present
HPI: 47.45
Rank: 280
1821 - 1898
HPI: 47.42
Rank: 281
1964 - Present
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 282
Among people born in 1972, Esther Duflo ranks 115. Before her are Jason O'Mara, Christophe Dugarry, Sandra Kim, Alain Berset, John Cho, and Timbaland. After her are Arayik Harutyunyan, Abel Xavier, Facundo Arana, Claudia Pechstein, Conchita Martínez, and Severina.
1972 - Present
HPI: 48.29
Rank: 109
1972 - Present
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 110
1972 - Present
HPI: 48.18
Rank: 111
1972 - Present
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 112
1972 - Present
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 113
1972 - Present
HPI: 48.09
Rank: 114
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 115
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 116
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.87
Rank: 117
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 118
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.72
Rank: 119
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 120
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 121
Among people born in France, Esther Duflo ranks 3,862 out of 6,011. Before her are Ernest Goüin (1815), Georges Balandier (1920), Benjamin Mendy (1994), Isaac Oliver (1556), Mady Mesplé (1931), and Nicolas Hulot (1955). After her are Jean-Richard Bloch (1884), Charles Duclerc (1812), Manuel Ferrara (1975), Elisabeth Abegg (1882), Henri Duveyrier (1840), and Bernard Cazeneuve (1963).
1815 - 1885
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 3,856
1920 - 2016
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 3,857
1994 - Present
HPI: 47.98
Rank: 3,858
1556 - 1617
HPI: 47.97
Rank: 3,859
1931 - 2020
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 3,860
1955 - Present
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 3,861
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 3,862
1884 - 1947
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 3,863
1812 - 1888
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 3,864
1975 - Present
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 3,865
1882 - 1974
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 3,866
1840 - 1892
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 3,867
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 3,868
Among economists born in France, Esther Duflo ranks 24. Before her are Thomas Piketty (1971), Pierre Leroux (1797), Michel Camdessus (1933), Clément Juglar (1819), Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646), and Olivier Blanchard (1948). After her are Muriel Casals i Couturier (1945).
1971 - Present
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 18
1797 - 1871
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 19
1933 - Present
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 20
1819 - 1905
HPI: 52.50
Rank: 21
1646 - 1714
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 22
1948 - Present
HPI: 49.97
Rank: 23
1972 - Present
HPI: 47.95
Rank: 24
1945 - 2016
HPI: 42.65
Rank: 25