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| occupation = [[Professor]], [[Economist]]<br />
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'''Abhijit Sen''' is a former member of the [[Planning Commission of India]], which was disbanded in 2014.<ref name="PC">[http://planningcommission.nic.in/aboutus/history/index.php?about=abhibody.htm]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Abhijit sen|url=https://fincomindia.nic.in/writereaddata/html_en_files/oldcommission_html/fincom14/members/FFProfAbhijitSen.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://fincomindia.nic.in/writereaddata/html_en_files/oldcommission_html/fincom14/members/FFProfAbhijitSen.htm}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Sen grew up in New Delhi, attending Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and then St Stephen's College for a Physics Honours degree.<br />
.<ref>[http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/dinnerbs-abhijit-sen/443113/]</ref> He has a PhD in Economics from the [[University of Cambridge]] in 1981 where he was a member of [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge|Trinity Hall]] and wrote a thesis titled "The agrarian constraint to economic development: the case of India" under supervision of Prof. J. A. Rowthorn<ref name="PC" /><br />
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==Career==<br />
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Currently he is on leave as the Professor of Economics at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref name="PC" /><br />
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He has been the Chairman of a number of official Commissions, including the High Level Committee on Long Term Grain Policy, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, the Tenth Plan Subgroup on Agricultural Economics and Rural Development.<ref name="PC" /><br />
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He has been a Member of the State Planning Boards of West Bengal and Tripura, PM's Taskforce on Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, and the Expert Committee on Rural Credit.<ref name="PC" /><br />
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Sen has also been Adviser/Consultant with International organisations, such as the [[United Nations]] Development Programme, New York; [[International Labour Organization]], Geneva; Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, Rome; [[OECD Development Centre]], Paris; the UN University World Institute of Development Research, Helsinki; [[International Fund for Agricultural Development]], Rome; [[Asian Development Bank]], Manila.<ref name="PC" /><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
Sen has authored /Co-authored more than 30 papers.{{more footnotes|date=May 2019}}<br />
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