▪️Full name: Sir Richard William Blundell (1952) 🏫Education: B.Sc. in Economics with Statistics (University of Bristol) M.S. in Econometrics and Math Econ (LSE) ▪️Position: David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy, University College London (1984-Present) Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Fiscal Studies (2022-Present) Associate Faculty Member, TSE, Toulouse (2017-Present) CEPR Research Fellow (2006-Present) IZA…
Category: Economist of the Week
Economist of the Week: Parag Pathak
▪️Full name: Parag A. Pathak (1980) 🏫Education: B.A. in Applied Mathematics (Harvard University) M.S. in Applied Mathematics (Harvard University) Ph.D. in Business Economics (Harvard University) ▪️Position: Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008-Present) Co-director (and founder), Working Group on Market Design, National Bureau of Economic Research (2008-Present) Founder of MIT’s Blueprint Labs…
Economist of the Week: Emi Nakamura
▪️Full name: Emi Nakamura (1980) 🏫Education: B.A in Economics (Princeton University) M.A. in Economics (Harvard University) Ph.D. in Economics (Harvard University) ▪️Position: Chancellor’s Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley (2018-present) CEPR Research Fellow (2020-present) Co-editor, American Economic Review (2018-present) Co-Director of Monetary Economics program, National Bureau of Economic Research (2018-present) …
Economist of the Week: John Van Reenen
▪️Full name: John Van Reenen (1965) 🏫Education: BA in Economics and Social and Political Sciences (University of Cambridge) M.S. in Industrial Relations (London School of Economics) Ph.D. in Economics (UCL) ▪️Position: Ronald Coase School Professor, Department of Economics, London School of Economics (2016-present) Digital Fellow, MIT Initiative for the Digital Economy (since 2020)…
Economist of The Week: Amir Kermani
▪️Full name: Amir Kermani 🏫Education: B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (University of Tehran) M.S. in Managerial Economics (Sharif University of Technology) M.S. in Economics (London School of Economics) Ph.D. in Economics (MIT) ▪️Position: Assistant Professor, Haas UC-Berkeley (2013-2019) Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate, Haas UC-Berkeley (2019-present) National Bureau of Economic Research Research…
Economist of The Week: Melissa Dell
▪️Full name: Melissa Dell (1983) 🏫Education: B.A. in Economics (Harvard University) MPhil in Economics (Oxford University) Ph.D. in Economics (MIT) ▪️Position: Professor, Harvard University, Department of Economics (2018- Present) Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research Harvard University Academy for International and Area Studies, Senior Scholar Fellow, Bureau for Research and Economic…
Economist of the Week: Amartya Sen
▪️Full name: Amartya Kumar Sen (1933) 🏫Education: B.A. in Economics with a minor in mathematics (Presidency University, Kolkata) B.A. in Economics (Trinity College, Cambridge) Ph.D. in Economics (Trinity College, Cambridge) ▪️Position: Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Harvard University (1989-present) Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Oxford University (1980-1988) Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics…
Economist of the Week: Daron Acemoğlu
▪️Full name: Kamer Daron Acemoğlu (1967) 🏫Education: B.Sc. in Economics (University of York ) M.S. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (London School of Economics) Ph.D. in Economics (London School of Economics) ▪️Position: Professor of Economics, M.I.T. (1993-present) Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Growth (1999-present) Editor-in-chief of Econometrica (2011-2015)…
Economist of the Week: Jean Tirole
▪️Full name: Jean Tirole (1953) 🏫Education: Engineer (Ecole Polytechnique) Diplôme d’Etude Approfondie; Decision Mathematics (Paris Dauphine University) Engineer (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées) Docteur de 3ème Cycle, Decision Mathematics (Paris Dauphine University) Ph.D. in Economics (MIT) ▪️Position: Honorary Chairman, Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont/Toulouse Sciences Economiques (TSE) Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute…
Economist of the Week: Alan Krueger
▪️Full name: Alan Bennett Krueger (1960-2019) 🏫Education: B.Sc. in Industrial & Labor Relations (Cornell University) A.M. in Economics (Harvard University) Ph.D. in Economics (Harvard University) ▪️Position: Bendheim Professor of Economics & Public Policy, Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (1992-2019) Research Associate, NBER (1992-2019) Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Labor…