Nobel Prize

I was born in 1972 at the Port Royal hospital, the “baby factory” of Paris. I grew up with my parents, Violaine Duflo (a pediatrician) and Michel Duflo (a math professor) in Asnières, a western suburb of Paris. I went to the local public schools until grade 11, and transferred to Henri IV, a magnet…

An accidental economist: a brief history A series of accidents, mostly fortunate, made me the human being and economist that I am. It started with the accident of my birth, to a couple who were both economists. This, in my generation, was already a minor miracle – in the mid 1950s my mother somehow managed…

I was born 14 may 1954, and my childhood in Carnforth, Lancashire was idyllic. At the time I would have said it was unremarkable, as are most things when not viewed by comparison. The near-total freedom I enjoyed seemed perfectly natural. The town was an unpretentious rail­way town in North Lancashire, England. My father was…

Abiy Ahmed was born in Beshasha, Ethiopia. As a young man, Abiy Ahmed participated in the armed struggle against Mengistu’s communist regime in Ethiopia and later served in the Ethiopian military. Abiy studied computer science, leadership and economics, graduating in 2017 with a doctorate in peace and conflict research at Addis Ababa University. A long-time…

Peter Handke did not submit a biography.

13 January 2022 Statement by the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee of 13 January 2022 on the situation in Ethiopia The Norwegian Nobel Committee is unable to comment publicly on the key factors that motivated it to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Abiy Ahmed in 2019, beyond referring to the statements issued in…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5TA-RolE2j8 Watch a video clip of the 2019 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Esther Duflo, receiving her Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rxB8ToX7qNg Watch a video clip of the 2019 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Michael Kremer, receiving his Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/A7cIQ56Jpk8 Watch a video clip of the 2019 Laureate in Economic Sciences, Abhijit Banerjee, receiving his Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/SabD4fMFkW4 Watch a video clip of the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Gregg L. Semenza, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2019.