Robert Wilson is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus, in the Economics area at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he joined the faculty in 1964. He earned an AB in 1959, MBA in 1961, and DBA in 1963 from Harvard University. He also received honorary degrees: Doctor of Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1986 and Doctor of Laws from the University of Chicago in 1995. His career at Stanford includes positions as Assistant and Associate Professor from 1964 to 1971, Professor from 1971 to 1976, and Atholl McBean Professor of Economics from 1976 to present. He served as Director of the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics from 1993 to 1995 and as administrative director of the PhD program for five years. Before Stanford, he taught as an instructor at UCLA from 1963 to 1964. Wilson has advised the U.S. Department of the Interior and oil companies on offshore lease bidding, the Electric Power Research Institute on electric power pricing and market design, the FCC on spectrum auctions, California Power Exchange, and energy ministries on electricity and telecommunications auctions.

Wilson's research and teaching center on market design, pricing, negotiation, industrial organization, information economics, and game theory applications, including auction theory, competitive bidding strategies in oil, communication, and power industries, innovative pricing schemes such as priority service for electric power, wage bargaining and strikes, settlement negotiations, and reputational effects in predatory pricing and competitive battles. Key publications include the book Nonlinear Pricing (Oxford University Press, 1993), "Sequential Equilibria" (Econometrica, 1982, with David M. Kreps), "Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma" (Journal of Economic Theory, 1982, with David M. Kreps, Paul R. Milgrom, John Roberts), "Bargaining with Private Information" (Journal of Economic Literature, 1993, with John Kennan), and approximately 100 articles in professional journals. Major awards and honors include the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2020), John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (2018), Leo Melamed Prize (1995), election to the National Academy of Sciences (1994), Guggenheim Fellowship (1982-1983), and Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2006). He has served as associate editor for Econometrica (1979-1985), Games and Economic Behavior (1988-present), and other journals, and delivered public lectures.

Professional Email: rwilson@stanford.edu