Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian American economist currently serving as the Lemann Foundation Professor in Economics at the University of Zurich. He is co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a global research center based at MIT that promotes the use of scientific evidence to inform poverty alleviation strategies. In 2019, Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. The prize recognized their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Banerjee and Duflo, who are married, became the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel or Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences.