Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He received a BA in Economics from the University of York in 1989, an MSc in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from the London School of Economics in 1990 and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1992. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), the Academy of Sciences (Turkey), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association and the Society of Labour Economists.
He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics 2024.
He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the inaugural T. W. Shultz Prize of the University of Chicago in 2004, and the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contribution to labour economics in 2004, the Distinguished Science Award of the Turkish Science Association in 2006, the John von Neumann Prize of Rajk College in Budapest in 2007. In 2005 he received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years by the American Economic Association to the best economist in the United States under the age of 40, and the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize, awarded every two years for work of lasting significance in economics. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Utrecht, Bosphorus University and the University of Athens.
