Roger Myerson

Roger Myerson
Myerson in 2008
Born	(1951-03-29) March 29, 1951 (age 74) Boston, Massachusetts, US
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University (AB, SM, PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth Arrow
Academic work
Discipline	Game theory
Institutions	University of Chicago Northwestern University
Doctoral students	Scott E. Page Leonard Wantchekon
Notable ideas	Mechanism design, Myerson–Satterthwaite theorem, Myerson value
Awards	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2007)
Academic background
Thesis	A theory of cooperative games (1976)
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Roger Bruce Myerson (born March 29, 1951) is an American economist and professor at the University of Chicago. He holds the title of the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts in the Harris School of Public Policy, the Griffin Department of Economics, and the College of the University of Chicago.^[1] Previously, he held the title The Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics.^[2] In 2007, he was the winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with Leonid Hurwicz and Eric Maskin for "having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".^[3] He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.^[4]