2025 Event in honor of Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo
June 10th, 2025
French Consulate General of New York
at 6pm
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Under the patronage of
His Excellency Laurent Bili, Ambassador to the United States
With the support of
His excellency Jérôme Bonnafont, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations
The Honorable Cédrik Fouriscot, Consul General of France in New York
The Honorable Mohamed Bouabdallah, Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy
Esther Duflo will be presented and interviewed by Pascaline Dupas, professor in economics and public affairs at Princeton University and co-chair of the Poverty Action Lab's health sector
About our Honoree
Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Chaire, Pauvreté et politiques publiques at the Collège de France. She is also the President of the Paris School of Economics.
In her research, she seeks to understand the economic lives of people living in poverty, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies. She has worked on health, education, financial inclusion, environment and governance.
Professor Esther Duflo’s first degrees were in history and economics from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. She subsequently received a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1999.
Duflo has received numerous academic honors and prizes including 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (with co-Laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer), the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the A.SK Social Science Award (2015), Infosys Prize (2014), the David N. Kershaw Award (2011), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (2009). With Abhijit Banerjee, she wrote Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2011 and has been translated into more than 17 languages, and Good Economics for Hard Times.
Duflo is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
About Professor Pascaline Dupas
Pascaline Dupas is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, and Faculty Director of the Princeton Center for Health and Wellbeing. She is a development economist seeking to identify interventions and policies that can help reduce global poverty. Dupas joined the Princeton faculty in 2023, after spending 12 years on the faculty at Stanford University, two years at Dartmouth College and three years at UCLA. She is the co-Scientific Director of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) Africa office, and the President of the Scientific Council of Paris School of Economics, among other things. Dupas studied philosophy and economics as an undergraduate student at the Ecole Normale Superieure. She obtained a PhD in Economics from PSE and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 2006.