Congratulations to these 30 new Fellows of the Econometric Society, who were announced yesterday.
The Econometric Society Elects 30 New Fellows
October 8, 2026 (New Haven, CT)—The Econometric Society is pleased to announce the election of 30 new Fellows.
"Election as a Fellow of the Econometric Society is a recognition of important contributions to Economics. The Fellows represent the highest authority of the Society. I congratulate them on this great honor,” said Nobu Kiyotaki, President of the Econometric Society.
Since 1931, only 1,254 total fellows have been elected. The 30 new fellows bring this number to 1,284 elected. To date, 90 Econometric Society Fellows have won the Nobel Prize in Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel). Of these 90, 28 have been President of the Econometric Society.
Following are the new 2026 Fellows:
Nikhil Agarwal, Paul A Samuelson Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juliano Assunção, Professor, PUC-Rio
Panle Barwick, Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor, UW-Madison
Francisco J. Buera, Sam B. Cook Professor of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis
Ariel Burstein, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Ivan Canay, Breen Family Professor, Northwestern University
Matias Cattaneo, Professor, Princeton University
Adeline Delavande, Professor of Economics, Nova School of Business and Economics; University Technology Sydney
Firmin Doko Tchatoka, Professor, Adelaide University
Piotr Dworczak, Professor, University of Cologne, Northwestern University, and GRAPE
Ivan Fernandez-Val, Professor, Boston University
Eric French, Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour Economics, University of Cambridge
Alex Gershkov, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Southampton
Nezih Guner, Professor, CEMFI
Sergei Guriev, Professor, London Business School
Christian Hansen, Wallace W. Booth Distinguished Service Professor of Econometrics, Statistics, and Applied AI, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Jonathan Heathcote, Monetary Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Paul Heidhues, Professor, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
Charles A. Holt, A. Willis Robertson Professor of Political Economy, University of Virginia
Jennifer La'O, Professor, Columbia University
Tong Li, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair and Professor of Economics, Vanderbilt University
Justin Yifu Lin, Professor, Peking University
Simon Loertscher, Professor, University of Melbourne
Antonio Penta, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Marek Pycia, Professor of Organizational Economics, University of Zurich
Nancy L. Rose, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Professor, Columbia University
Martin Uribe, Robert A. Mundell Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Rakesh Vohra, George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Yi Xu, David Rubenstein Distinguished Professor, Duke University
For a full list of all Society Fellows please click here.
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