11 Facts About John Geanakoplos

John Geanakoplos was born on March 18,1955 and is an American economist, and the James Tobin Professor of Economics at Yale University.

John Geanakoplos was born to a Greek-American family of scholars.

John Geanakoplos's father was the late professor emeritus at Yale Deno Geanakoplos, a Greek-American historian of Byzantine cultural and religious history, and his mother, Effie Geanakoplos, was an instructor in psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center.

In 1970 Geanakoplos won the United States Junior Open Chess Championship.

John Geanakoplos was a co-founder in 2002, and is still co-director, of the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale.

John Geanakoplos was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1990, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.

John Geanakoplos was awarded the Samuelson Prize in 1999, and was awarded the first Bodossaki Prize in economics in 1994 for the best economist of Greek heritage under 40.

John Geanakoplos spent terms as visiting professor at MSRI in the University of California, Berkeley, at Churchill College, Cambridge, at the University of Pennsylvania, at Harvard, at Stanford, and at MIT.

John Geanakoplos was a founding partner in 1995 of Ellington Management Group, and remains a partner.

In 2009, John Geanakoplos co-authored a work on credit cards and inflation through the Cowles Foundation.

John Geanakoplos's co-author was the mathematical economist and fellow Yale professor Pradeep Dubey.