Biography

Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has been teaching economic theory and urban economics since 1992. He also coordinates the Urban Economics Working Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research, co-directs the Cities Programme of the International Growth Centre, and is co-editor of the Journal of Urban Economics. He has written hundreds of articles on cities, infrastructure, and other topics, and is the author, co-author, or editor of numerous books, including Triumph of the City, Survival of the City (with David Cutler), and Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference (with Alberto Alesina). He has served as director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, was editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and chairman of Harvard’s Economics Department. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Econometric Society. He received the Albert O. Hirschman Prize from the Social Science Research Council. He graduated from Princeton University (A.B.) in 1988 and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1992.