20th Anniversary Speakers

Orley Ashenfelter

Princeton University & American Economic Association

Orley Ashenfelter is an American economist and Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where he currently holds the position of the director of the Industrial Relations Section. In 2011 he is serving as the President of the American Economic Association. Previously he has been director of the Office of Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Labor, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Benjamin Meeker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol. He is a recipient of numerous awards including the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, the Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement of the Society of Labor Economists, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of Labor Economics, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Additionally, Mr. Ashenfelter serves as the co-editor of the American Law and Economics Review and a number of other journals. He is the former editor of the American Economic Review.