banerjee is a co-founder of abdul latif jameel poverty action lab (along with economists esther duflo and sendhil mullainathan). he is a research affiliate of innovations for poverty action and a member of the consortium on financial systems and poverty. banerjee was a president of the bureau for the research in the economic analysis of development, a research associate of the "national bureau of economic research," a research fellow at the centre for economic policy research, an international research fellow of the kiel institute, fellow at the american academy of arts and sciences, and a fellow at the econometric society. he also has been a guggenheim fellow and an alfred p. sloan fellow. he is the co-author of "poor economics". he also serves on the academic advisory board of plaksha university, an upcoming science and technology university in india. his new book, co-authored with esther duflo, "good economics for hard times", was released in october 2019 in india by juggernaut books.