He has served as president of the Econometric Society (1984), the International Economic Association (1986-1989), the Indian Economic Association (1989) and the American Economic Association (1994).
Sen has been called "the Conscience of the profession" and "the Mother Teresa of Economics"[REF][REF] for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, gender inequality, and political liberalism.