Hal Varian

Hal Varian
Born (1947-03-18) March 18, 1947 (age 77)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
InstitutionUniversity of California, Berkeley
MIT
FieldMicroeconomics, information technology
School or
tradition
Neoclassical economics
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
MIT
Doctoral
advisor
Daniel McFadden
David Gale
Doctoral
students
Earl Grinols
James Andreoni
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947, in Wooster, Ohio) is Chief Economist at Google and holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics.

Varian joined Google in 2002 as its chief economist. He played a key role in the development of Google's advertising model and data analysis practices.[1]

  1. ^ Zuboff, Shoshana (2020). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. PublicAffairs. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-61039-570-0.

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