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Jonathan David Levin (born November 17, 1972) is an American economist, currently serving as the 13th president of Stanford University. He was previously the 10th dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Levin is known for his research in industrial organization, particularly in the areas of market design, antitrust economics, and the economics of contracting.
Academic career
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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999. 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 fields of Microeconomic Theory and 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).
On April 4, 2024, the Stanford University Board of Trustees announced Levin would become Stanford's 13th president, effective August 1, 2024. Levin succeeds Richard Saller, who has served as Stanford's president on an interim basis since September 2023 after the resignation of Marc Tessier-Lavigne. Levin was ceremonially inaugurated to the Presidency on September 27, 2024. Levin is the first Stanford president since 1968 to have a Stanford degree.
Awards and honors
Levin has received over a dozen honors and awards. He was awarded the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal 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:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2014
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Best Paper Award, 2014
Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, 2006
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2004–2006
George Webb Medley Thesis Prize, Oxford, 1996
Personal life
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.
References
External links
Website at Stanford University
Website at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
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