Matthew Jackson

Matthew O. Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. He was at Northwestern University and Caltech before joining Stanford, and received his BA from Princeton University in 1984 and PhD from Stanford in 1988. Jackson's research interests include game theory, microeconomic theory, and the study of social and economic networks, on which he has published many articles and the books The Human Network' andSocial and Economic Networks'. He also teaches an online course on networks and co-teaches two others on game theory. Jackson is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Game Theory Society Fellow, and an Economic Theory Fellow, and his other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Social Choice and Welfare Prize, the von Neumann Award from Rajk Laszlo College, an honorary doctorate from Aix-Marseille University, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize from the Toulouse School of Economics, the Slater Family Lecturer of the Year Prize from the Technion, the B.E.Press Arrow Prize for Senior Economists, the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance, and Management, and teaching awards. He has served on the editorial boards of Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, PNAS, the Review of Economic Design, and as the President of the Game Theory Society.

Academic Appointments

• Professor, Economics
• Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
• Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

Administrative Appointments

• Chair Economics Section, National Academy of Sciences (2021 - 2024)
• Senior Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2010 - 2020)
• William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University (2008 - Present)
• External Faculty Member, Santa Fe Institute (2007 - Present)
• Professor of Economics, Stanford University (2006 - 2008)
• Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology (2002 - 2006)
• Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology (1997 - 2002)
• IBM Distinguished Professor of Regularity and Competitive Practices and Chairman of MEDS department, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (1996 - 1997)
• Mechthild E. Nemmers Distinguished Professor and Chairman of MEDS, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (1995 - 1996)
• Professor (MEDS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (1993 - 1994)
• Associate Professor (MEDS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (1991 - 1993)
• Assistant Professor (MEDS), Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (1988 - 1991)

Honors & Awards

• Slater Family Lecturer of the Year Prize, Technion (2022)
• Frontiers of Knowledge Award: Economics Finance and Management, BBVA (2021)
• President, Game Theory Society (2020-2022)
• Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, Toulouse School of Economics (2020)
• Fellow, Game Theory Society (2017)
• Member, National Academy of Sciences (2015)
• the von Neumann Award, Rajk Laszlo College (2015)
• Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University (2013)
• Honorary Doctorate, Aix-Marseille University (2013)
• Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford Department of Economics (2012)
• Economic Theory Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (2011)
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
• Outstanding Teaching Award, Stanford Graduate Economics Association (2008)
• Arrow Prize for Senior Economists, BEPress (2007)
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (2005-2006)
• Guggenheim Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005)
• Social Choice and Welfare Prize, Society for Social Choice and Welfare (2001)
• Fellow, Econometric Society (1998)
• Class of 1916 Cup, Princeton University (1984)
• Wolf Balleisen Memorial Prize, Princeton University (1984)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

• Co-Editor, Econometrica (2011 - 2015)
• Editor, Games and Economic Behavior (2007 - 2011)
• Co-Editor, Econometric Society Monograph Series (2001 - 2008)
• Co-Editor, Review of Economic Design (1997 - 2006)
• Associate Editor, Econometrica (1998 - 2007)
• Associate Editor, Games and Economic Behavior (1996 - 2007)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Theory (1993 - 2001)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economic Theory (1997 - 2006)
• Associate Editor, Mathematical Social Sciences (1995 - 2006)
• Associate Editor, Not a Journal of Economics (2005 - Present)
• Associate Editor, Theoretical Economics (2005 - 2008)
• External Faculty Member, Santa Fe Institute (2007 - Present)
• Vice Chair, Economics Department, Stanford University (2008 - 2011)
• Chair, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Department, KGSM Northwestern University (1995 - 1997)
• Director, Stanford Institute in Theoretical Economics (SITE) (2006 - 2010)
• Director, CEME-NSF Decentralization Conference Series (2002 - 2010)
• Director, Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL), Caltech (2003 - 2005)
• Executive Committee Member, Econometric Society (2010 - 2012)
• Selection Committee, Chair, Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics (2010 - 2010)
• Selection Committee, Chair, Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics (2012 - 2012)
• Selection Committee, Chair, Calvó-Armengol International Prize in Economics (2014 - 2014)
• Selection Committee Member, Nakahara Prize, Japanese Economic Association (2008 - 2012)
• Fellowship Nominating Committee Member, Society for Advancement of Economic Theory (2012 - 2013)
• Fellows Nominating Committee Member, Econometric Society (2007 - 2008)
• Fellows Nominating Committee, Chair, Econometric Society (2009 - 2009)
• Council Member, Econometric Society (2006 - 2012)
• Council Member and Charter Member, Game Theory Society (2004 - 2009)
• Council Member and Founding Member, Society for Social Choice and Welfare (1992 - 1997)
• Council Member and Founding Member, Society for Social Choice and Welfare (2000 - 2005)
• Council Member and Founding Member, Society for Social Choice and Welfare (2008 - 2013)
• Scientific Advisory Board Member, Graduate School of Economics Barcelona (2007 - Present)
• Scientific Advisory Board, Chair, MOVE (2010 - Present)
• Advisory Board Member, Center for Research in Microeconomics, University of Cambridge (2008 - Present)
• Economics Review Panel Member, National Science Foundation (NSF) (2000 - 2002)
• Member, Economics Teaching Award Committee (2013 - 2013)
• Member, Econometrica Co-editor Search Committee (2013 - 2013)
• Member, Fellowship Nominating Committee, SAET (2012 - 2013)
• Chair, Calvo-Armengol Prize Selection Committee (2013 - 2013)
• Member, Santa Fe Institute Faculty Search Committee (2013 - 2013)
• Member, Theoretical Economics, Co-editor search committee (2011 - 2011)
• Member, Stanford Economics Senior Search committee (2011 - 2011)
• Member, Econometric Society Transparency committee (2010 - 2010)
• Chair, Committee to Structure Programming Course for economics PhD students (2009 - 2009)
• Member, Theoretical Economics Advisory Committee, Econometric Society (2009 - 2009)
• Member, Econometric Society Fellows Nomination Committee (2009 - 2009)
• Chair, Antoni Calvo-Armengol Memorial Prize Selection Committee (2009 - 2009)
• Co-Chair, Junior Recruiting Committee (2007 - 2008)
• Member, International Economics Search Committee (2008 - 2008)
• Co-Chair, Junior Recruiting Committee (2006 - 2007)
• Member, Walras-Bowley Lecture Selection Committee, Econometric Society (2006 - 2006)
• Member, New Journal Research Committee, Econometric Society (2005 - 2005)
• Member, Louis-André Gerard-Varet Prize Selection Committee (2004 - 2004)
• Member, Nemmers Prize Selection Committee (2004 - 2004)
• Member, Social Choice and Welfare Prize Selection Committee (2003 - 2003)
• Member, Koc Prize Selection Committee (1998 - 2004)

Professional Education

• Ph.D., Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Economics (1988)
• B.A., Princeton University, Economics (1984)