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Spence,
Michael (USA) - Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
and Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management
in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford
University. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He served
as Philip H. Knight Professor and dean of the
Stanford Business School from 1990 to 1999. Since
1999, he has been a partner at Oak Hill Capital
Partners in Menlo Park. From 1975 to 1990, he
served as professor of economics and business
administration at Harvard University. Spence was
awarded the John Kenneth Galbraith Prize for excellence
in teaching in 1978 and the John Bates Clark Medal
in 1981 for a “significant contribution
to economic thought and knowledge.” Spence
was named chairman of the Economics Department
at Harvard in 1983 and served as the dean of the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1984 to 1990. |
At various times, he has served as a member of the
editorial boards of American Economics Review, Bell
Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory,
and Public Policy. Among his many honors, Spence
was elected a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences in 1983 and was awarded the David
A. Wells Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation
at Harvard University in 1972.He is a member of
the boards of directors for General Mills. From
1991 to 1997, he was chairman of the National Research
Council Board on Science, Technology and Economic
Policy. He is a member of the American Economic
Association and a fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society.
He was awarded a B.A. summa cum laude degree from
Princeton University in 1966, a B.A.-M.A. degree
from Oxford University in 1968 and a Ph.D. degree
in economics from Harvard in 1972. |
