The University of California,Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley,California. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley,it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California system.
Oliver Eaton Williamson was an American economist,a professor at the University of California,Berkeley,and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences,which he shared with Elinor Ostrom.
The Walter A. Haas School of Business is the business school of the University of California,Berkeley,a public research university in Berkeley,California. It was the first business school at a public university in the United States.
The University of California,Berkeley College of Engineering is the public engineering school of the University of California,Berkeley. Established in 1931,the college occupies fourteen buildings on the northeast side of the main campus and also operates the 150-acre (61-hectare) Richmond Field Station. It is considered to be highly selective and is consistently ranked among the top engineering schools in both the nation and the world.
Thomas John Campbell is an American academic,educator,and politician. He is a professor of law at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law,and a professor of economics at the George Argyros School of Business and Economics,at Chapman University,in Orange,California.
Laura D'Andrea Tyson is an American economist and university administrator who is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business of the University of California,Berkeley and a senior fellow at the Berggruen Institute. She served as the 16th Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 and 2nd Director of the National Economic Council from 1995 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton. Tyson was the first woman to hold each of those posts. She remains the only person to have served in both posts.
The Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy,or the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP),is a public policy school and one of fourteen schools and colleges at the University of California,Berkeley. Originally named the Graduate School of Public Policy,it was founded in 1969 as one of the first public policy institutions in the United States. Since 2016,the Goldman School has been ranked as the #1 public policy graduate program in the country by U.S. News &World Report.
The University of California College of the Law,San Francisco is a public law school in San Francisco,California,United States. It was previously known as the University of California,Hastings College of the Law from 1878 to 2023.
Robert Joseph Birgeneau is a Canadian-American physicist and university administrator. He was the ninth chancellor of the University of California,Berkeley from 2004–13,and the fourteenth president of the University of Toronto from 2000-04.
Li Choh-ming was a Chinese-born American economist and educator. He was the founding Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1963. He compiled The Li Chinese Dictionary (Cantonese-Mandarin). He was an economics professor at the University of California,Berkeley and at Nankai University in Tianjin during his academic career.
Carol Tecla Christ is an American former academic administrator. She served as the 11th Chancellor of the University of California,Berkeley from 2017 to 2024.
Nicholas B. Dirks is an American academic and a former Chancellor of the University of California,Berkeley. Dirks is the author of numerous books on South Asian history and culture,primarily concerned with the impact of British colonial rule. In June 2020,Dirks was named president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Mark Edward Rubinstein was a leading financial economist and financial engineer. He was Paul Stephens Professor of Applied Investment Analysis at the Haas School of Business of the University of California,Berkeley. He held various other professional offices,directing the American Finance Association,amongst others,and was editor of several first-tier academic journals including both the Journal of Financial Economics and the Journal of Finance. He was the author of numerous papers and four books.
Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (清华大学经济管理学院) is the management school of Tsinghua University in Beijing,China. The school offers undergraduate,master,doctoral,and many executive education programs,with a total enrollment of more than 3,000 students.
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology aimed to reducing poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by rigorous,scientific evidence. J-PAL funds,provides technical support to,and disseminates the results of randomized controlled trials evaluating the efficacy of social interventions in health,education,agriculture,and a range of other fields. As of 2020,the J-PAL network consisted of 500 researchers and 400 staff,and the organization's programs had impacted over 400 million people globally. The organization has regional offices in seven countries around the world,and is headquartered near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge,Massachusetts.
George W. Breslauer is an academic in the field of social sciences and the former executive vice chancellor and provost of UC Berkeley.
Benjamin E. Hermalin is an American economist and university administrator. He holds professorships in the department of economics at the University of California,Berkeley and in Berkeley's Haas School of Business,where he is the Thomas &Alison Schneider Distinguished Professor of Finance. Since 2022,he has also been Berkeley's executive vice chancellor and provost.
Catherine D. Wolfram is an American micro-economist,academic,and researcher who is the William F. Pounds Professor of Energy Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Previously,she served as a Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration and associate dean for academic affairs at the Haas School of Business at University of California,Berkeley where she also served as a faculty director of The E2e Project and as scientific director for energy and the environment at Center for Effective Global Action. She also directed the National Bureau of Economic Research's Environment and Energy Economics Program.
