Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo is a renowned economist and a Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her innovative research in development economics. Along with her colleagues, she focuses on understanding poverty through rigorous field experiments, which help identify effective interventions to improve lives in low-income countries. Duflo co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) to promote evidence-based policy-making. Her work emphasizes the importance of data and empirical evidence in crafting solutions for social issues like health, education, and economic opportunity, aiming to reduce global poverty effectively and sustainably.