Angus Deaton is Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University. He works on health, development, inequality, poverty, and wellbeing, the measurement of international price indexes and on the use and interpretation of evidence for policy. In the UK, he is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow and Royal Medalist of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In the US, he is a member of the American Philosophical Society and of the National Academy of Sciences. He was President of the American Economic Association in 2009. He was the 2012 recipient of the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2015. In 2016 he was made a Knight Bachelor for services to economics and international affairs.