The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation with statistics and mathematics. It was founded on December 29, 1930 at the Stalton Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

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The sixteen founding members were: Ragnar Frisch, Charles F. Roos, Joseph A. Schumpeter, Harold Hotelling

Harold Hotelling

Harold Hotelling was a mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist.He was Associate Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University from 1927 until 1931, a member of the faculty of Columbia University from 1931 until 1946, and a Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the...

, Henry Schultz

Henry Schultz

Henry Schultz was an American economist and statistician, one of the founders of econometrics.-Life:Henry Schultz was born on September 4, 1893 in a Polish family in Szarkowszczyzna, the Russian Empire...

, Karl Menger

Karl Menger

Karl Menger was a mathematician. He was the son of the famous economist Carl Menger. He is credited with Menger's theorem. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, etc...

, Edwin B. Wilson, Frederick C. Mills, William F. Ogburn, J. Harvey Rogers, Malcolm C. Rorty, Carl Snyder

Carl Snyder

Carl Snyder was an American economist and statistician.Although he attended the University of Iowa and studied in Paris, he was chiefly self-taught. He began as a journalist; at the age of 20, he was editor of the Council Bluffs Nonparell, later writing editorials for the Washington Post...

, Walter A. Shewhart

Walter A. Shewhart

Walter Andrew Shewhart March 18, 1891 - March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control.W...

, Øystein Ore

Øystein Ore

Øystein Ore was a Norwegian mathematician.-Life:Ore was graduated from the University of Oslo in 1922, with a Cand.Scient. degree in mathematics. In 1924, the University of Oslo awarded him the Ph.D. for a thesis titled Zur Theorie der algebraischen Körper, supervised by Thoralf Skolem...

, Ingvar Wedervang

Ingvar Wedervang

Ingvar Brynhjulf Wedervang was a Norwegian economist and statistician.He graduated from the University of Oslo with a degree in economics in 1913. During the next nine years, he worked first as a government statistician with Statistics Norway, then for the private company Treschow-Fritzøe, and...

 and Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician.A famous child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.Wiener is regarded as the originator of cybernetics, a...

. The first president was Irving Fisher

Irving Fisher

Irving Fisher was an American economist, inventor, and health campaigner, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation often regarded as belonging instead to the Post-Keynesian school.Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and...

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The Econometric Society sponsors the academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 Econometrica

Econometrica

Econometrica is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles not only in econometrics but in many areas of economics. It is published by the Econometric Society and distributed by Wiley-Blackwell. Econometrica is one of the most highly ranked economics journals in the world...

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Officers

The website of the Econometric Society lists its Presidents and its Fellows

• List of Presidents of the Econometric Society

Fellows of the Econometric Society (Partial listing in a Wikipedia category)

Honorary lectures

The Econometric Society sponsors several annual awards, in which the honored member delivers a lecture:

• The Frisch Medal Award
  Frisch Medal
  The Frisch Medal is an award in econometrics given by the Econometric Society. It is awarded every two years for empirical or theoretical applied research published in Econometrica during the previous five years...
  
  
• Walras-Bowley Lecture
  Walras-Bowley Lecture
  The Walras-Bowley Lecture is an annual lecture of the Econometric Society, given by a non-North-American member at the summer North American meeting or, in World Congress years, at the World Congress. The lecture was named in honor of Léon Walras and A. L...
  
  
• Fisher-Schultz Lecture
  Fisher-Schultz Lecture
  The Fisher-Schultz Lecture of the Econometric Society is an annual lecture given by a non-European member at the European meeting or, in World Congress years, at the World Congress. The lecture was named in honor of Irving Fisher and Henry Schultz....
  
  
• Jacob Marschak Lecture
  Jacob Marschak Lecture
  The Jacob Marschak Lecture is a lecture series of the Econometric Society, given each year at a location of which rotates among the regional meetings held outside North America and Europe. The lecture series was named in honor of Jacob Marschak.2009 Bo E. Honoré, Princeton University2008 Clive W. J...