Nandana Dev Sen refutes reports of her father Amartya Sen's death

The family of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Tuesday refuted rumours suggesting the demise of the renowned economist. Prior to this, numerous individuals had shared on X that Amartya Sen, the distinguished economist, had passed away.

Sen's daughter said that he is teaching two courses a week at Harvard, working on his gender book and was busy as ever.

"Friends, thanks for your concern but it’s fake news: Baba is totally fine. We just spent a wonderful week together w/ family in Cambridge—his hug as strong as always last night when we said bye! He is teaching 2 courses a week at Harvard, working on his gender book—busy as ever!," the economist's daughter Nandana Dev Sen wrote on social media platform X.


Amartya Sen won a Nobel Prize in economics for his “contributions to welfare economics” in 1998.

Sen was born into a Baidya family in Santiniketan, Bengal, in India. After university studies in Kolkata, India and at Cambridge, UK, where Sen received his PhD in 1959, he has held professorships in India and at Oxford and Cambridge universities, as well as in the US, including at Harvard University. Sen is married to Emma Rothschild and has four children from two previous marriages.

One focus of Amartya Sen's research is how individuals' values can be considered in collective decision-making and how welfare and poverty can be measured. His efforts stem from his interest in questions of distribution and, in particular, the lot of society's poorest members. Sen's studies have included famines, to create a deeper understanding of the economic reasons behind famine and poverty, says the official website of the Nobel Prize.