Amartya Sen was an Indian economist who was born in the year 1933 on 3rd November in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1998 for the contribution he had given in Welfare Economics. He started his teaching career at Harvard University by teaching economics to students in 1987, and after that, he was also appointed as the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was the first Asian to achieve a head position at Oxbridge College.