14 Facts About Douglas Diamond

Douglas Warren Diamond was born on October 25,1953 and is an American economist.

Douglas Diamond is the Merton H Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he has taught since 1979.

Douglas Diamond is a former president of the American Finance Association and the Western Finance Association.

In October 2022, Diamond was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Ben Bernanke and Philip H Dybvig.

Douglas Diamond was raised in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago by a single mother.

Douglas Diamond matriculated at Brown University, where he decided to study economics instead, after taking a course on Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States.

Douglas Diamond graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1975.

Since 1979, Douglas Diamond has taught at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Douglas Diamond has held the Merton H Miller Distinguished Service Professorship since July 2000, having previously held the Theodore O Yntema Professorship.

From 2010 to 2014, Douglas Diamond directed the Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance at the University of Chicago.

Douglas Diamond has additionally served as a visiting scholar at the University of Bonn and the Bank of Japan, as visiting professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and MIT Sloan School of Management, and as a professor and teaching fellow at the Yale School of Management.

On October 10,2022, Diamond received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with long-time collaborator Philip H Dybvig and former Chair of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke.

Douglas Diamond has been married to Elizabeth Cammack Douglas Diamond since 1982.

Douglas Diamond is the son of Leon Diamond, a psychiatrist, and Margaret Gunkel Seehafer, a social worker and professor.