Jonathan Levin (economist)

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Jonathan Levin
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Levin in 2021
13thPresident of Stanford University
Designate
Assuming office
August 1, 2024
Awards John Bates Clark Medal (2011)
Academic background
Education Stanford University (BA, BS)
Nuffield College, Oxford (MPhil)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Thesis Relational contracts, incentives and information  (1999)
Doctoral advisor Bengt Holmstrom
Influences Paul Milgrom
Academic career
Institution Stanford University
Field Microeconomics
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Jonathan David Levin (born November 17, 1972) is an American economist and academic. He is currently the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. [1] On April 4, 2024, the Stanford University Board of Trustees announced Levin would become Stanford's 13th president, effective August 1, 2024. [2]

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Levin is known for his research in industrial organization, particularly in the areas of market design, antitrust economics, and the economics of contracting.

Academic career

Levin received his Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1994, a Master of Philosophy in Economics from Nuffield College, Oxford in 1996, and his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1999. [3] He was a post-doctoral scholar at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University. He joined Stanford as an assistant professor in 2000 and became a full professor in 2008.

His research is in the field of Industrial Organization. Since 2016, he has been the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was the Holbrook Working Professor of Price Theory in the Department of Economics at Stanford and chair of Stanford Department of Economics from 2011 to 2014. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). [4]

On August 1, 2024, he will assume the role of president of Stanford University. Levin will succeed Richard Saller, who has served as Stanford's president on an interim basis since September 2023 after the resignation of Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Levin will be the first Stanford president since 1968 to have a Stanford degree. [5]

Awards and honors

Levin has received over a dozen honors and awards. He was awarded the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal [6] [7] as the outstanding American economist under the age of 40, regarded as the most distinguished economic title after the Nobel Prize.

Some of his other notable achievements include:

Personal life

Jonathan Levin is Jewish. Levin lives in Palo Alto with his wife, Amy, a physician, and their three children.

He is the son of former Yale University President Rick Levin. [8] [9]

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References

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  6. Lahart, Justin (April 19, 2011). "Stanford's Jonathan Levin Wins John Bates Clark Medal". Wall Street Journal .
  7. Einav, Liran; Tadelis, Steve (2012). "Jonathan Levin: 2011 John Bates Clark Medalist". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 26 (2): 207–218. doi: 10.1257/jep.26.2.207 . ISSN   0895-3309.
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