Jonathan Levin

Economist and academic leader Jonathan Levin became Stanford University's thirteenth president in 2024. 

He earned undergraduate degrees in English and Mathematics at Stanford in 1994, an M.Phil in Economics at Oxford University in 1996, and a PhD in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999. After joining the Stanford faculty in 2000, Levin became the Holbrook Working Professor of Price Theory in the Department of Economics and served as department chair from 2011 to 2014. Prior to assuming the presidency, Levin was the Philip H. Knight Professor and in 2016 became the tenth dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Business. 

Levin’s scholarly work has spanned topics ranging from incentive contracts to game theory, e-commerce, and health insurance. He has conducted influential research on the organization and design of markets, subprime lending, and empirical methods to study imperfect competition. He is widely recognized for his scholarship in industrial organization and market design.

In 2011, he received the John Bates Clark Medal as the economist under the age of 40 who has made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. 

Levin serves as a member of President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is a Trustee of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He has consulted widely in industry and government. He was part of the international expert group that designed the first vaccine Advance Market Commitment for pneumococcal disease and participated in the design of the FCC’s noted broadcast spectrum incentive auction.