2025 SPEAKERS
​Joel Sobel
Joel Sobel is professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. He earned an MA in economics and a PhD in applied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on game theory and has been seminal in the field of strategic communication in economic games. Sobel was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1990 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. He has served as co-editor of the American Economic Review and as editor of Econometrica.
Marina Halac
Marina Halac is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale University. Her research is in the areas of game theory, contract theory, and mechanism design. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. She was on the faculty of Columbia University and the University of Warwick before joining Yale in 2018, and has been a visiting faculty at the University of Chicago. She is currently a coeditor of Econometrica, having previously served as a coeditor of Theoretical Economics and an editorial board member of a number of economics journals.
Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Atila Abdulkadiroglu is a professor of economics at Duke University and a prominent researcher in the fields of mechanism design, market design, and the economics of education. His work on school choice has led to the design and implementation of better admissions policies in school choice programs in the US, including Boston, Camden, Chicago, Denver, Indianapolis, Newark, New Orleans, New York City and Washington DC. His work was mentioned prominently in the scientific background article for the 2012 Nobel memorial prize in Economics, which was awarded jointly to Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design. His work on research design for data from centralized admissions systems contributes to the evaluation of education policies and understanding demand patterns in schooling.