Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at MIT and co-author of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. In 2005 he received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to an economist under 40 who has made the most important contribution to economics.
Project Title: Building State Capacity
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Associate Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
