Jonathan Levin (born November 17, 1972) is an American economist at

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who succeeded Garth Saloner as the dean at

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on September 1, 2016. He also has an appointment as the Holbrook Working Professor of Price Theory in the Department of Economics at Stanford. He had been Chair of the Economics Department. He was awarded the 2011

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. Since 2021, he has been a member of the

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(PCAST). He is the son of former

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President

Richard Levin Richard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an American economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Early lif ...

Academic career

Levin received his BA and BS degrees from

in 1994, an MPhil in Economics from

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in 1996, and his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1999. He was a post-doctoral scholar at the

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, and began teaching at Stanford in 2000. His research is in the field of

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Professional career

Levin has had numerous professional experiences in the realm of economics, whether in the world of academia or business. He has served on many committees and boards, sharing his expertise with fellow economists and the general public. Additionally, within the education track, he has given back to the next generation of economists as a college professor, eventually leading him to his current role as dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Awards and honors

Levin has received over a dozen honors and awards. His most esteemed is the previously mentioned John Bates Clark Medal in 2011, which is 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 background

Levin has a wife and three children, with whom he lives on the Stanford campus south of San Francisco, in Palo Alto.

References

External links

Website at Stanford University
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