Infosys Social Science Prize 2020 is for Economics; Jury's Kaushik Basu asks 'guess who?'

The jury work for the 'Infosys Social Science Prize 2020' is completed, announced Cornell University Economics professor and former Chief Economist of World Bank, Kaushik Basu. He added that this year's Infosys Prize is for Economics and any Indian economist or person, under the age of 55 years, who has done 'path-breaking work' or contributed majorly to the sector is eligible for the prize. Kaushik Basu is co-chairing the jury for the 2020 Infosys Prize in the Social Science sector. 

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Here's a list of winners of the 11th Infosys Prize 2019:

• Infosys Engineering and Computer Science Prize 2019 - Sunita Sarawagi, Institute Chair Professor for Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
• Infosys Humanities Prize 2019 - Manu V. Devadevan, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi
• Infosys Life Sciences Prize 2019 - Manjula Reddy, Chief Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad

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• Infosys Mathematical Sciences Prize 2019 - Siddhartha Mishra, Professor, Department of Mathematics at ETH Zürich
• Infosys Physical Sciences Prize 2019 - G. Mugesh, Professor, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru 
• Infosys Social Sciences Prize 2019 - Anand Pandian, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

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Infosys Prize

Infosys Prize is an annual award given to scientists, researchers, engineers as well as social scientists of Indian origin for their research and contribution to the sectors. This award is given by the Infosys Science Foundation and has been ranked among one of the highest monetary awards given to recognize research in India. Under each category of the prize, a gold medal, a citation certificate, as well as a prize amount of $100,000 is given, which is 'tax-free' in India. 

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Infosys Science Foundation and National Institute of Advanced Studies jointly awarded this prize for mathematics in 2008. In 2009, three more categories - Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences were added besides Mathematical Sciences. In the following year, 2010, Engineering and Computer Science were also added and in 2012, Humanities gained recognition as the sixth category in the Infosys Prize. 

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(In Picture: Nalini Anantharaman - 2018 winner for Mathematical Sciences)