Nobel laureates winners Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo to leave US for Switzerland amid funding cuts
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, will join the University of Zurich in Switzerland starting July next year. The move from the US comes as experts warn that President Donald Trump’s cuts to research funding and attacks on academic freedom could cause a brain drain of top scientists. At the University of Zurich, the couple will set up the Lemann Centre for Development, Education and Public Policy. The centre aims to connect researchers and policymakers to help reduce poverty and improve education worldwide.
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