Susan Athey is an American economist and Economics graduate professor at Stanford University. She is also the Chief Economic Consultant at Microsoft. Her main areas of research include industrial organization and microeconmic theory as well as the economics of technology. This has led her to specialize in studying the advancement of auction-based marketplaces and economics of the internet, with an emphasis on the role of advertising online and the economics of news media.
Athey was born November 20, 1970 in Boston, MA. Enrolling at the age of just 16, she received her Bachelor's degree from Duke University with a triple major in economics, mathematics, and computer science. She then went on to receive her PhD from Stanford University, completing her doctorate at the age of 24. She began teaching as an associate professor at MIT and was there for six years before moving on to Stanford as a professor of economics. After five years, she moved on to Harvard where she taught until 2012, when she decided to return to the Stanford graduate school of business, where she currently teaches today. She has received a number of honors for her research, most notably the John Bates Clark Medal in 2007, an award given to an American economist under the age of forty who has made a significant contribution to the field of economic thought and knowledge.
Very good. Athey is not yet a household name. I expect that she'll become that within the next few years.
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