“Every time I meet with her, I feel like I have wings"

Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Nobel laureate in economics Esther Duflo honoured as 'committed to caring' by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for fostering graduate student skills and ambition. Duflo has demonstrated how much she cares about their ideas, research and success, helping her students develop their ideas into longer-term, impactful research projects.