1977) Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1982–1983; John Bates Clark Medalist, 1991; Laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2008 Lucas Papademos (Ph.D., 1977) vice president of the European Central Bank, 2002- Ben S. Bernanke (Ph.D., 1979) Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 2006-2014 Kenneth S. Rogoff (Ph.D., 1980) IMF chief economist Jean Tirole (Ph.D., 1981) president of the Econometric Society, 1998; president of the European Economic Association, 2001; Laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2014 N. Gregory Mankiw (Ph.D., 1984) Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 2003–2005 Andrei Shleifer (Ph.D., 1986) John Bates Clark Medalist, 1999 Matthew Rabin (Ph.D., 1989) John Bates Clark Medalist, 2001 Andrew Samwick (Ph.D., 1993) Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, 2003–2004 Judith Chevalier (Ph.D., 1993) Elaine Bennett Research Prize recipient, 1998 Steven D. Levitt (Ph.D., 1994) John Bates Clark Medalist, 2003; co-author of Freakonomics Emmanuel Saez (Ph.D., 1999) John Bates Clark Medalist, 2009 Esther Duflo (Ph.D. 1999), John Bates Clark Medalist, 2010; Elaine Bennett Research Prize recipient, 2002; Laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2019; co-author Poor Economics Jonathan Levin (Ph.D., 1999) John Bates Clark Medalist, 2011 Amy Finkelstein (Ph.D., 2001) John Bates Clark Medalist, 2012; Elaine Bennett Research Prize recipient, 2008 References External links MIT Department of Economics website Massachusetts Institute of Technology Economics schools