Amartya Sen, whose term as chancellor of Nalanda University was not renewed, is having a chair named after him at the London School of Economics. The LSE will shortly start interviewing candidates for the newly created “Amartya Sen Chair in Inequality Studies” who will also serve as its director of the International Inequalities Institute (III). Sen, currently the Thomas W Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, was professor of economics at the LSE from 1971-82. The creation of the chair was announced last month by the LSE’s director, Minouche Shafik, who said in a statement that “in naming this chair after Amartya Sen, we recognise one of the world’s great thinkers on social equality”. I am told that his wife often says that when Amartya has to go from A to B he always does it via the LSE.

Source: The Telegraph April 21, 2019 01:52 UTC