Andrew Michael Spence was born on November 7,1943 and is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.
16 Facts About Michael Spence
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Michael Spence received his middle and high school education at the University of Toronto Schools of the University of Toronto.
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Michael Spence later came back to Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto to serve as a member of the Rotman Dean's Advisory Board.
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Michael Spence then began graduate studies in economics at Harvard University with the support of a Danforth Graduate Fellowship in the fall of 1968.
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Michael Spence stepped down as Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1999 and joined Oak Hill Capital Partners.
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Michael Spence is the Chairman of the Commission on Growth and Development, and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Michael Spence joined the faculty of New York University's Stern School of Business on September 1,2010.
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Michael Spence joined the faculty of SDA Bocconi School of Management in Italy in July 2011.
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Michael Spence is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Philip H Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business.
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Michael Spence is a Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.
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Additionally, Michael Spence is a member of the Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council.
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Michael Spence is the author of three books and 50 articles, and has been a consistent contributor to Project Syndicate, an international newspaper syndicate, since 2008.
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Michael Spence had both Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in a graduate-level economics class at Harvard.
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Michael Spence is an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
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Michael Spence was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001, as well as the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economics Association in 1981.
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Michael Spence was elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1976 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983.