Goolsbee to Speak at Graduation

Austan Goolsbee ’87, professor of economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, will speak at the Academy’s 203 commencement exercises on June 4, 2004.

Named one of the 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow in 2002 by the World Economic Forum, a Switzerland-based group that builds partnerships between business and society, Austan’s research has focused on major public policy issues of the new economy, including the economics of the Internet. His research and writings have covered diverse areas including Internet commerce, technology adoption, stock options and executive compensation, and government policy.

In addition to teaching at the University of Chicago, Austan is an editor of the Journal of Law and Economics, a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation and at the National Bureau of Economic Research and recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He has served as a special consultant to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice for Internet Policy, and has advised Congress on issues of Internet taxation. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, and many others.

Goolsbee graduated summa cum laude with both a B.A. and M.A. in economics from Yale University, and with a Ph.D in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.