Daron Acemoglu

MIT, Professor, Nobel Laureate

Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT, Faculty Co-Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work, fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the British Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2024 (with Co-Laureates Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson), the Fordham Trailblazer Award, the A.SK Social Science Award, the Stanford University Sage CASBS Award, the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award, the Nemmers Prize, the Global Economy Prize, the Carnegie Fellowship, the CME Mathematical and Statistical Research Institute Prize, the John Bates Clark Medal; and author of New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail (with James Robinson), The Narrow Corridor (with James Robinson), Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity (with Simon Johnson), and What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity. He holds honorary doctorates from University of Utrecht, Bosporus University, University of Athens, Bilkent University, University of Bath, Ecole Normale Superieure, Saclay Paris, London Business School, the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), UQAM Montreal, the Poznań University of Economics and Business and Oxford University.