List of Presidents of the Econometric Society
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devoted to the advancement of economics by using mathematical and statistical methods. This article is a list of its (past and present) Presidents.
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- 2014: Manuel ArellanoManuel ArellanoManuel Arellano is a highly cited Spanish economist specialising in econometrics and empirical microeconomics. He has been a professor of economics at CEMFI in Madrid since 1991.He studied economics at Universidad de Barcelona....
- 2013: James J. Heckman
- 2012: Jean Charles Rochet
- 2011: Bengt R. HolmströmBengt R. HolmströmBengt Robert Holmström is the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at M.I.T. He is a Finnish citizen and belongs to the Swedish speaking minority in Finland....
- 2010: John Hardman MooreJohn Hardman MooreJohn Hardman Moore is an economic theorist. He was appointed Professor of Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh in 2000. Previously, in 1983, he was appointed to the London School of Economics, where in 1990 he became Professor of Economic Theory, a position he still holds.- Education...
- 2009: Roger B. Myerson
- 2008: Torsten PerssonTorsten PerssonTorsten Persson is a Swedish economist and the director of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He has also taught in England, the United States, and Israel...
- 2007: Lars Peter HansenLars Peter HansenLars Peter Hansen is an economist at the University of Chicago.- Biography :After graduating from Utah State University and the University of Minnesota Lars Peter Hansen (b. October 26, 1952 in Champaign, Illinois) is an economist at the University of Chicago.- Biography :After graduating from...
- 2006: Richard BlundellRichard BlundellRichard Blundell, CBE, FBA is a British Economist and Econometrician.He is currently the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London and Research Director at Institute for Fiscal Studies...
- 2005: Thomas J. SargentThomas J. SargentThomas John "Tom" Sargent is an American Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winning economist, specializing in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series econometrics...
- 2004: Ariel RubinsteinAriel RubinsteinAriel Rubinstein is an Israeli economist who works in game theory. He was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972–1979, in both mathematics and economics...
- 2003: Eric MaskinEric MaskinEric Stark Maskin is an American economist and Nobel laureate recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory." He is the Albert O...
- 2002: Guy Laroque
- 2001: Avinash DixitAvinash DixitAvinash Kamalakar Dixit is an Indian-American economist originally of Indian nationality.-Education:Dixit received a B.Sc. from Bombay University in 1963 in Mathematics and Physics, a B.A...
- 2000: Elhanan HelpmanElhanan HelpmanElhanan Helpman is an Israeli-American economist who works in the field of international trade, political economy and economic growth.-Biography:...
- 1999: Robert B. WilsonRobert B. WilsonRobert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. is an American economist and the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He is known for his contributions to management science and business economics. His doctoral thesis introduced sequential quadratic programming, which...
- 1998: Jean TiroleJean TiroleJean Marcel Tirole is a French professor of economics. He works on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology. Tirole is director of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation at the Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific director of the Industrial...
- 1997: Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
- 1996: Roger GuesnerieRoger GuesnerieRoger Guesnerie is an economist born in France in 1943. He is currently the Chaired Professor of Economic Theory and Social Organization of the Collège de France, Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Paris School...
- 1995: Christopher Sims
- 1994: Takashi Negishi
- 1993: Andreu Mas-ColellAndreu Mas-ColellAndreu Mas-Colell is a Spanish economist, an expert in microeconomics and one of the world's leading mathematical economists. He is the founder of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain...
- 1992: Jean-Jacques LaffontJean-Jacques LaffontJean-Jacques Marcel Laffont was a French economist specializing in public economics and information economics. Educated at the University of Toulouse and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique in Paris, he was awarded the Ph.D...
- 1991: Peter A. DiamondPeter A. DiamondPeter Arthur Diamond is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen...
- 1990: Jean-Michel Grandmont
- 1989: Hugo F. SonnenscheinHugo F. SonnenscheinHugo Freund Sonnenschein is a prominent American economist and educational administrator. Currently the Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, his specialty is microeconomic theory; with a particular interest in game theory...
- 1988: Anthony B. Atkinson
- 1987: Dale Jorgenson
- 1986: Michael BrunoMichael BrunoMichael Peter Bruno was an Israeli economist. He was a governor of Israel's central bank and a former World Bank Chief Economist.-Biography:...
- 1985: Daniel McFaddenDaniel McFaddenDaniel Little McFadden is an econometrician who shared the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with James Heckman ; McFadden's share of the prize was "for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice". He was the E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics at the...
- 1984: Amartya K. Sen
- 1983: Herbert ScarfHerbert ScarfHerbert Eli "Herb" Scarf is an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
- 1982: James A. Mirrlees
- 1981: Marc NerloveMarc NerloveMarc Leon Nerlove is an American economist specialized in agricultural economics and econometrics. He is currently Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. In 1969 he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal for his contributions to economics.Marc Nerlove...
- 1980: John D. Sargan
- 1979: Franklin M. FisherFranklin M. FisherFranklin Marvin Fisher is an American economist. He has taught economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1960.-Biography:...
- 1978: Janos KornaiJános KornaiJános Kornai , is an economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states.- Biography :...
- 1977: Lionel McKenzie
- 1976: Hirofumi Uzawa
- 1975: Zvi GrilichesZvi GrilichesHirsh Zvi Griliches was an economist at Harvard University. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in an assimilated Jewish family that spoke Russian at home. During World War II he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp...
- 1974: Don PatinkinDon PatinkinDon Patinkin was an Israeli/American monetary economist, and the president of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.- Biography :...
- 1973: Roy RadnerRoy RadnerRoy Radner is currently Leonard N. Stern School Professor of Business at New York University. He is a micro-economic theorist with varied interests...
- 1972: W. M. GormanW. M. GormanWilliam Moore "Terence" Gorman was an Irish economist and academic. He was predominantly a theorist and is most famous for his work on aggregation and separability of goods, and in this context he developed his famous Gorman polar form...
- 197l: Gerard DebreuGerard DebreuGérard Debreu was a French economist and mathematician, who also came to have United States citizenship. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.-Biography:His father was the...
- 1970: Jacques H. Drèze
- 1969: Leonid HurwiczLeonid HurwiczLeonid "Leo" Hurwicz was a Russian-born American economist and mathematician. His nationality of origin was Polish. He was Jewish. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science...
- 1968: Frank HahnFrank HahnFrank Horace Hahn is a British economist whose work has focused on general equilibrium theory, monetary theory, Keynesian economics and monetarism...
- 1967: Hendrik Houthakker
- 1966: Herman WoldHerman WoldHerman Ole Andreas Wold was a Norwegian-born econometrician and statistician who had a long career in Sweden...
- 1965: Michio MorishimaMichio Morishimawas a Japanese economist, mathematician and econometrician, who was a faculty member at the London School of Economics from 1970-88 as the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics...
- 1964: Robert SolowRobert SolowRobert Merton Solow is an American economist particularly known for his work on the theory of economic growth that culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him...
- 1963: Edmond MalinvaudEdmond MalinvaudEdmond Malinvaud is a French economist. He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences....
- 1962: Franco ModiglianiFranco ModiglianiFranco Modigliani was an Italian economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT Department of Economics, and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1985.-Life and career:...
- 1961: Henri TheilHenri TheilHenri Theil was a Dutch econometrician.He graduated from the University of Amsterdam. He was the successor of Jan Tinbergen at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Later he taught in Chicago and at the University of Florida. He is most famous for his invention of 2-stage least squares...
- 1960: Lawrence KleinLawrence KleinLawrence Robert Klein is an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1980...
- 1959: Marcel Boiteux
- 1958: James TobinJames TobinJames Tobin was an American economist who, in his lifetime, served on the Council of Economic Advisors and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He developed the ideas of Keynesian economics, and advocated government intervention to...
- 1957: Trygve HaavelmoTrygve HaavelmoTrygve Magnus Haavelmo , born in Skedsmo, Norway, was an influential economist with main research interests centered on the fields of econometrics and economics theory. During World War II he worked with Nortraship in the Statistical Department in New York City. He received his Ph.D...
- 1956: Kenneth ArrowKenneth ArrowKenneth Joseph Arrow is an American economist and joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. To date, he is the youngest person to have received this award, at 51....
- 1955: Richard StoneRichard StoneSir John Richard Nicholas Stone was an eminent British economist who in 1984 received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale...
- 1954: Wassily LeontiefWassily LeontiefWassily Wassilyovich Leontief , was a Russian-American economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief won the Nobel Committee's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1973, and three of his doctoral students have also...
- 1953: René RoyRene RoyRené François Joseph Roy was a French economist. He is primarily recognized for the contribution now known as Roy's identity.-References:...
- 1952: Paul SamuelsonPaul SamuelsonPaul Anthony Samuelson was an American economist, and the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Swedish Royal Academies stated, when awarding the prize, that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in...
- 1951: R. G. D. AllenR. G. D. AllenSir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA was an English economist, mathematician and statistician.Allen was born in Worcester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, from which he won a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...
- 1950: Tjalling KoopmansTjalling KoopmansTjalling Charles Koopmans was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
- 1949: Ragnar Frisch
- 1948: Charles Roos
- 1947: Jan TinbergenJan TinbergenJan Tinbergen , was a Dutch economist. He was awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes...
- 1946: Jacob MarschakJacob MarschakJacob Marschak was an American economist of Ukrainian Jewish origin.- Life :...
- 1944-1945: John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, CB FBA , was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments...
- 1942-1943: Wesley Mitchell
- 1940-1941: Joseph SchumpeterJoseph SchumpeterJoseph Alois Schumpeter was an Austrian-Hungarian-American economist and political scientist. He popularized the term "creative destruction" in economics.-Life:...
- 1938-1939: Arthur Bowley
- 1936-1937: Harold HotellingHarold HotellingHarold 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...
- 1935: François Divisia
- 1931-1934: Irving FisherIrving FisherIrving 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...