Education: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 1976.

Current Affiliations: Adams University Professor,Professor of Economics & Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University.Director, IIAS Summer School in Economic Theory.

Selected Honors: 

· Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson) for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory, 2007.
· Chair, National Academy of Sciences (Economics Section), 2015-2018.
· Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994.
· Corresponding Fellow, British Academy, 2003.
· President, Econometric Society, 2003.
· President, Game Theory Society, 2010-2012.
· President, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, 2018.
· Founding Co-President, Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics, 2019.
· Sloan Research Fellowship, 1983-1985.

· Game Theory

· Contract Theory

· Social Choice Theory

· Political Economy