Jonathan Levin

Jonathan Levin (born November 17, 1972) is an American economist at Stanford University who succeeded Garth Saloner as the dean at Stanford Graduate School of Business on September 1, 2016.

He also has an appointment as the Holbrook Working Professor of Price Theory in the Department of Economics at Stanford.

He had been Chair of the Economics Department.

Levin received his BA and BS degrees from Stanford University in 1994, an MPhil in Economics from Nuffield College, Oxford in 1996, and his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1999.

He was a post-doctoral scholar at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University, and began teaching at Stanford in 2000.

His research is in the field of Industrial Organization.

Levin has received over a dozen honors and awards.

He was awarded the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal.

Since 2021, he has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

He is the son of former Yale University President Richard Levin.

His most esteemed is the previously mentioned John Bates Clark Medal in 2011, which is regarded as the most distinguished economic title after the Nobel Prize.

Some of his other notable achievements include:

Levin has a wife and three children, with whom he lives on the Stanford campus south of San Francisco, in Palo Alto.