1987 Franco Modigliani, 1985 Lawrence Klein (Ph.D., 1944), 1980 Paul Samuelson, 1970 Current Faculty Professors Alberto Abadie Daron Acemoglu George-Marios Angeletos Joshua Angrist David Autor Abhijit Banerjee Ricardo J. Caballero Victor Chernozhukov Arnaud Costinot Esther Duflo Glenn Ellison [past Department Head] Amy Finkelstein Drew Fudenberg Robert S. Gibbons Jonathan Gruber Jeffrey Harris Bengt R. Holmström [past Department Head] Whitney K. Newey Benjamin Olken Parag Pathak James M. Poterba [past Department Head] Drazen Prelec Nancy Rose [current Department Head] Robert M. Townsend John Van Reenen Iván Werning Michael Whinston Alexander Wolitzky Muhamet Yildiz Associate Professors Anna Mikusheva Assistant Professors Nikhil Agarwal Isiah Andrews David Atkin Frank Schilbach Senior Lecturer Sara Fisher Ellison Professors Emeriti Morris Adelman Sidney Alexander Robert L. Bishop [former Department Head, former Dean School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences] Olivier Blanchard Richard S. Eckaus [past Department Head] Peter A. Diamond [past Department Head] Stanley Fischer [past Department Head] Paul Joskow [past Department Head] Michael Piore Jerome Rothenberg Richard L. Schmalensee Abraham J. Seigel Robert Solow Peter Temin [past Department Head] William Wheaton Affiliated Faculty Mathias Dewatripont Ernst Fehr Jean Tirole Former Faculty Susan Athey (Ph.D., Stanford) John Bates Clark Medal, 2007 E. Cary Brown (Ph.D., Harvard) Professor of Economics, Emeritus Evsey Domar (Ph.D., Harvard) Rudi Dornbusch (Ph.D., Chicago) Ford International Professor, International Economics Robert F. Engle (Ph.D., Cornell) Stanley Fischer (Ph.D., MIT) Charles P. Kindleberger (Ph.D., Columbia) Ford International Professor of Economics, Emeritus Edwin Kuh (Ph.D., Harvard) Paul Krugman (Ph.D., MIT) John Bates Clark Medal, 1991 Eric Maskin (Ph.D., Harvard) Daniel McFadden (Ph.D., Minnesota) Franco Modigliani (D.Jur., Rome and D.Soc.Sci., New School of Research) Institute Professor Emeritus; Professor of Finance & Economics George P. Shultz (Ph.D., MIT) Hal Varian (Ph.D., Berkeley) Notable alumni Lawrence R. Klein (Ph.D., 1944) John Bates Clark Medalist, 1959; president of the Econometric Society, 1960; president of the American Economic Association, 1977; Laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1980 Margaret Garritsen de Vries (Ph.D., 1946) Carolyn Shaw Bell Award Recipient, 2002 George P. Shultz (Ph.D., 1949) Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, 2004 Ronald W. Jones (Ph.D., 1956) Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, 2009 William Nordhaus (Ph.D., 1967), Council of Economic Advisers 1977 - 1979 Mario Draghi (Ph.D., 1976) Governor of the Banca d'Italia, chairman of the Financial Stability Forum, president of the European Central Bank Robert A. Mundell (Ph.D., 1956) Distinguished