Jonathan Levin | |
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![]() Levin in 2021 | |
13thPresident of Stanford University | |
Assumed office August 1, 2024 | |
Preceded by | Richard Saller |
Personal details | |
Born | New Haven,Connecticut,U.S. | November 17,1972
Children | 3 |
Parent |
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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 the 13th President of Stanford University. He was previously the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. [1]
Levin is known for his research in industrial organization, particularly in the areas of market design, antitrust economics, and the economics of contracting.
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. [2] 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). [3]
On April 4, 2024, the Stanford University Board of Trustees announced Levin would become Stanford's 13th president, effective August 1, 2024. [4] 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]
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:
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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