Susan C. Athey

Susan Athey is Chief Economist of the Antitrust Division.  She is on partial leave from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where she is the Economics of Technology Professor. She received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University and her PhD from Stanford, and she holds honorary doctorates from Duke University and London Business School. She previously taught at the economics departments at MIT, Stanford, and Harvard. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Science and is the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded by the American Economics Association to the economist under 40 who has made the greatest contributions to thought and knowledge. She is president-elect (for 2023) of the American Economics Association, where she previously served as Vice President and as a member of the Executive Committee. Her research focuses on the economics of digitization, marketplace design, technology for social impact, and the intersection of econometrics and machine learning.  She has served as consulting chief economist and on the boards of directors of multiple private and public technology firms.  She was a founding associate director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and she is the founding faculty director of the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at Stanford GSB.