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Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University

Susan Athey is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. In addition she has been serving as a consultant to Microsoft Corporation in the role of Chief Economist since 2007.

Professor Athey is an expert in a broad range of economic fields, including microeconomic theory and industrial organization. Her work includes economic theory, and empirical applications and econometric models, and focuses on marketplace design, auction theory, and the statistical analysis of auction data. Her recent work has included theoretical and empirical studies of internet search, online advertising and the news media. She has published numerous articles in the top economics journals.

Professor Athey is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal (given biannually to one influential American economist under the age of forty with the most significant contribution to economic thought) and the Elaine Bennett research award (awarded biannually to a young woman with outstanding contributions in economics). She has received several grants from the National Science Foundation, including a prestigious Career Development award. In addition, she received the Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship for 2000—2002; was elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society in 2004, and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008; and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2000—2001, and, in 2004—2005, was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science at Stanford.

She currently serves as an elected member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, an elected member of the Council of the Econometric Society and an elected member of the Council of the Game Theory Society. She also has served as co-editor of American Economic Journals Microeconomics and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and as an associate editor of several leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies and the RAND Journal of Economics, as well as the National Science Foundation economics panel.

Professor Athey holds a BA from Duke, with majors in Economics, Mathematics and Computer Science, and a PhD from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Education:

BA Economics, Duke University
BA Mathematics, Duke University
BA Computer Science, Duke University
PhD Stanford Graduate School of Business