Sir Partha Dasgupta is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge and the 2016 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement Laureate. He has spent nearly most of his professional life working on poverty and inequality issues. His cutting-edge research covers welfare and development economics, the economics of technological change, population, environmental and resource economics, game theory and the economics of malnutrition. In 2002, he was named Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for services to economics.