Drew Fudenberg is the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at MIT. He received an A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard College in 1978, and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1981.
He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and was its President in 2017. He is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is a past editor of Econometrica and a co-founder of the open access journal Theoretical Economics.
Fudenberg’s work on game theory ranges from foundational work on learning and equilibrium to the analysis of repeated games and reputation effects to the study of particular games, competition between firms, and other topics in theoretical industrial organization. More recently he has worked on topics in behavioral economics and decision theory such as self-control and stochastic choice. He is the author of four books: Dynamic Models of Oligopoly (1986) with Jean Tirole, Game Theory (1991) with Jean Tirole, The Theory of Learning in Games (1998) with David K. Levine, and A Long-Run Collaboration on Long-Run Games (2008) with David K. Levine.
Gilat Levy is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Previously she has held positions at Princeton University and the Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University. She is a research fellow of the CEPR, a member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society, a member of the board of editors of the American Economic Review, and an associate editor of Theoretical Economics.
She received her PhD in Economics from Princeton University and a BA in Economics from Tel Aviv University. Her research interests are in Her research has been published in leading journals in economics including the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of the European Economics Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Journal of Public Economics. microeconomic theory and political economy.
Philip J. Reny is the Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College. He is an economic theorist whose research interests include auction theory, information aggregation, mechanism design, and game theory.
His current research focuses on incorporating natural language into game theory, with an emphasis on refining sequential equilibria through simple and easily understood conventions within the language.
Reny became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015; a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2012; a charter member of the Game Theory Society in 1999, and a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1996. He served as the Chair of the University of Chicago’s Department of Economics and as the lead editor of Journal of Political Economy.