BEC Luncheon featuring Simon Johnson, 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate In Economic Sciences, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management

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BEC Luncheon 

featuring

Professor Simon Johnson

2024 Nobel Prize Laureate In Economic Sciences 

Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship

MIT Sloan School of Management

ABOUT THE EVENT

BIO

SIMON JOHNSON is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is head of the Global Economics and Management group. At MIT, he is also co-director of the Stone Center Initiative and a Research Affiliate at Blueprint Labs.

In 2024, Johnson received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, joint with Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

In 2007-08, Johnson was chief economist and director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. He currently co-chairs the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council with Erkki Liikanen. He is a Research Associate at the NBER and a Fellow at CEPR.

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