Susan Athey

Susan Athey
Professor Susan Athey in 2020
Born	November 29, 1970 Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Spouse	Guido Imbens
Academic career
Institution	Stanford University
Field	Microeconomics Econometrics Machine Learning
Alma mater	Stanford Graduate School of Business Duke University
Doctoral advisor	Paul Milgrom Donald John Roberts Edward Lazear
Awards	John Bates Clark Medal (2007)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Susan Carleton Athey (born November 1970 (age 53)^[1]) is an American economist. She is the Economics of Technology Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.^[2] Prior to joining Stanford, she has been a professor at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.^[3] She served as the consulting chief economist for Microsoft for six years^[4] and was a consulting researcher to Microsoft Research. She is currently on the boards of Expedia, Lending Club, Rover, Turo, Ripple, and non-profit Innovations for Poverty Action.^[4] She also serves as the senior fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. She is an associate director for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the director of Golub Capital Social Impact Lab.^[4]