Professor Guido Imbens

Professor Guido Imbens is The Applied Econometrics Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) and Professor of Economics in the Economics Department at Stanford University. He is also the Chai-Siriwatwechakul Faculty Fellow at the GSB. He has held tenured positions at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University prior to joining Stanford in 2012.

Professor Imbens specializes in econometrics, and in particular methods for drawing causal inferences from experimental and observational data.

In 2021 he shared the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with David Card and Joshua Angrist for “methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationship”.

Professor Imbens is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Statistical Association, and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of St. Gallen and Brown University. In 2017 he received the Horace Mann medal at Brown University. Currently Imbens is Editor of Econometrica, one of the leading academic journals in economics.