Until recently, Amartya Sen held professorhips in both economics and philosophy at Harvard University. As of 1998, he is master at Trinity college in Cambridge, England. He was born in Bengal, India in 1933. After completing his early academic education in India, he continued his studies in Cambridge, England and received his doctorate there in 1959. Sen has been professor at the University of Delhi, 1963-71, the London School of Economics, 1989-77, All Souls College in Oxford, 1977-88 and Harvard University, 1889-97