Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo (French: Esther Duflo; French: [dyflo], October 25, 1972-) is a French-American economist, co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Laboratory (J-PAL), one of the 2019 Nobel Prize winners in economics, and now serves as a professor of development economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Duflo is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he serves on the Board of Economic Analysis and is the development economics director of economic and policy research.