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SUMMARY:Erna Hamburger Prize\, Prof. Esther Duflo
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Esther Duflo\n17h30 Ouverture de la cérémonie\n17h40 P
 résentation de la Lauréate\n                 Prof. Phili
 ppe Gillet\, Vice-président pour les affaires académiques de L'EPFL\n17h
 50 Conférence de la Lauréate\n18h10 Remise du prix\n          
        Prof. Karen Scrivener\, Présidente de la Fondation EPFL-WISH
 \n18h20 Table ronde avec invité spécial\,\n             Mons
 ieur Yves Daccord\, Directeur général du Comité international de la Cro
 ix-Rouge\n19h00 Cocktail\nEsther Duflo is a French economist\, Co-Founder 
 and Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab\, and Professor 
 of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Inst
 itute of Technology (MIT). Her research focuses on microeconomic issues in
  developing countries\, including household behavior\, education\, access 
 to finance\, health and policy evaluation. Esther Duflo completed her unde
 rgraduate studies at École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1994\, receive
 d a master's degree from Paris School of Economics\, jointly with École N
 ormale Supérieure in 1995\, and completed a PhD in Economics at MIT in 19
 99. Upon completing her PhD\, she was appointed assistant professor (with 
 tenure) of Economics at MIT in 2002\, at the age of 29\, making her among 
 the youngest faculty at MIT to be awarded tenure.\nEsther Duflo has receiv
 ed numerous academic honors and prizes. Including most recently\, she was 
 chosen in 2011 by Time Magazine as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential 
 People in the World”. Then\, in 2012\, she was picked by Foreign Policy 
 magazine as one of its Top 100 Global Thinkers. As of 2013\, she was nomin
 ated by US President Barack Obama to help shape US global development poli
 cy.
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