25 Facts About Susan Athey

Susan Athey is the Economics of Technology Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Susan Athey is the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.

Susan Athey served as the consulting chief economist for Microsoft for six years and was a consulting researcher to Microsoft Research.

Susan Athey is currently on the boards of Expedia, Lending Club, Rover, Turo, Ripple, and non-profit Innovations for Poverty Action.

Susan Athey serves as the senior fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Susan Athey is an associate director for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the director of Golub Capital Social Impact Lab.

Susan Athey's parents are Elizabeth Johansen, an English teacher and freelance editor, and Whit Athey, a physics scholar.

Susan Athey attended Duke University as an undergraduate, completing three majors and graduating with a BA in 1991.

Susan Athey got her start in economics research during a summer job preparing bids for a company that was selling personal computers to the government through procurement auctions, working on problems related to auctions with Bob Marshall, a professor at Duke University who worked on defense procurement and helped her with procurement auctions.

Susan Athey was involved in a number of activities at Duke and served as treasurer of Chi Omega sorority and as president of the field hockey club.

Susan Athey's thesis was supervised by Paul Milgrom and Donald John Roberts.

Susan Athey has been married to economist Guido Imbens since 2002.

Susan Athey then served as professor of economics at Harvard University until 2012, when she returned to the Stanford Graduate School of Business, her alma mater.

Susan Athey has contributed on all dimensions to research on auctions.

Susan Athey has performed significant empirical work in econometrics of auctions.

Susan Athey designed work that has had significant effects on business and public policy.

Susan Athey applied her results to establish conditions under which Nash equilibria would exist in auctions and other Bayesian games.

Susan Athey aided British Columbia in the design of the pricing system used for publicly owned timber.

Susan Athey published articles about auctions for online advertising and advised Microsoft about the design of their search advertising auctions.

Susan Athey has served as an associate editor of several leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and the RAND Journal of Economics, as well as the National Science Foundation economics panel, and she served as an associate editor for Econometrica, Theoretical Economics, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Susan Athey is a past co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.

Susan Athey was the chair of the program committee for the 2006 North American Winter Meetings, and has served on numerous committees for the Econometric Society, the American Economic Association, and the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

Susan Athey is a member of President Obama's Committee for the National Medal of Science.

Susan Athey serves as a long-term advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, helping architect and implement their auction-based pricing system.

Susan Athey is the founding director of the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at Stanford GSB, and associate director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.