Education: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 1976.
Current Affiliations: Adams University Professor,Professor of Economics & Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University.Director, IIAS Summer School in Economic Theory.
Selected Honors:
· Nobel Prize in Economics (shared with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson) for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory, 2007.
· Chair, National Academy of Sciences (Economics Section), 2015-2018.
· Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994.
· Corresponding Fellow, British Academy, 2003.
· President, Econometric Society, 2003.
· President, Game Theory Society, 2010-2012.
· President, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, 2018.
· Founding Co-President, Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics, 2019.
· Game Theory
· Contract Theory
· Social Choice Theory
· Political Economy