Professor Sir Angus Stewart Deaton, FBA (born 19 October 1945) is a British American economist and author. Deaton is currently a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. His research focuses primarily on poverty, inequality, health, wellbeing, and economic development.
In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare. Princeton, PJ., Deaton posed on Wednesday 29 November 2017.Photograph by Jim Graham