The 1994 Laureate was Prof.Gita Sen of the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. Her pioneering research has created a broader understanding of the manner in which the relationship between environment and development is conditioned by social structures and, in particlar, by the changing role of women within them.

The Prize Jury's Citation:
Dr. Sen's outstanding contribution takes the rich body of scholarship on how patterns of resource exploitation are affected by household- and community-level partitioning of rights and ownership, and successfully connects it to crucial national and international policy debates on population growth, the status of women, and sustainable development.