Abhijit V. Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT and the author of Poor Economics. He is the recipient of many honours and awards and has been named as one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers and served on the U.N. Secretary-General's panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT and the author of Poor Economics.
Duflo has been part of the President Obama s Global Development Council, and has received numerous academic honours and prizes including a John Bates Clark Medal and a MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellowship.