Rate Professor Alvin Roth

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Operations Research, Stanford University, 1974; M.S. in Operations Research, Stanford University, 1973; B.S. in Operations Research, Columbia University, 1971.

Research Interests: Market design, game theory, and organ transplantation matching systems.

Appointments: George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Stanford University; Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Awards: Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2012); John von Neumann Theory Prize.

Publications: Author of Who Gets What—and Why (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015); Articles in American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy.

Additional Contributions: Designed kidney exchange programs adopted worldwide.