Philippe Aghion | |
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Born | Paris, France | 17 August 1956
Nationality | French |
Academic career | |
Field | Innovation Economic growth Organisations Contract theory |
Institutions | Collège de France
INSEAD London School of Economics Harvard University University College London Nuffield College, Oxford Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Alma mater | Harvard University (PhD) École Normale Supérieure de Cachan University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (DEA) |
Doctoral advisor | Eric Maskin Andreu Mas-Colell Jerry R. Green |
Awards | Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2001)
John von Neumann Award (2009) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2019) |
Philippe Mario Aghion FBA (born 17 August 1956) is a French economist who is a professor at the Collège de France, at INSEAD, and at the London School of Economics.[1] He also teaches at the Paris School of Economics. From 2002 to 2015, he was the Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University.[1] Prior to that, he was a professor at University College London, an Official Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]