Williams College Baccalaureate Speaker 2025 – Esther Duflo
Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. Duflo and 2 colleagues received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for developing a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty. It involves dividing this issue into smaller, more manageable, questions.