Glenn Ellison
{{short description|American economist|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| workplaces = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
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| doctoral_advisor = Drew Fudenberg
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| thesis_title = Strategic interactions in large populations
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Glenn David Ellison (born 1965){{Cite web |title=Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek |url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid=126351783 |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=portal.dnb.de |archive-date=2022-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225200739/https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid=126351783 |url-status=live }} is an American economist who is the Gregory K. Palm Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an Elected Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory and American Academy of Arts & Sciences.{{Cite web |url=http://seii.mit.edu/people/glenn-ellison/ |title=Glenn Ellison |publisher=mit.edu |accessdate=May 1, 2017 |archive-date=September 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916140328/http://seii.mit.edu/people/glenn-ellison/ |url-status=live }} He is the father of Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research.
Education and career
Ellison received an A.B. degree in mathematics from Harvard College. He went on to Cambridge University on a Churchill Scholarship and received an M.Phil. degree in economics in 1988. He then worked briefly as an Associate at Charles River Associates between 1988 and 1989. He received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1992 under the supervision of Drew Fudenberg. After his doctorate, he became an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University from 1992 to 1994. He moved to MIT in 1994 and became head of the Department of Economics between 2016 and 2017 and again since 2020.
Ellison's research interests include game theory, industrial organization, education, finance, economic geography, and academia.
Honors and awards
Ellison is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and has received several awards, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences. He has served on the National Science Foundation Economics Panel and as a council member for the Econometric Society.
Personal life
Ellison married Sara Fisher Ellison, a senior lecturer in economics at MIT.{{cite journal |title=NBER Profile: Glenn Ellison |journal=NBER Reporter |date=2009 |issue=3 |page=16 |url=https://www.nber.org/sites/default/files/2019-08/2009number3.pdf |access-date=25 November 2022 |publisher=National Bureau of Economic Research |archive-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125103743/https://www.nber.org/sites/default/files/2019-08/2009number3.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Sara Fisher Ellison MIT Economics |url=https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/sara-fisher-ellison |publisher=MIT |access-date=25 November 2022 |archive-date=13 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113211338/https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/sara-fisher-ellison |url-status=live }} They have three daughters, Caroline, Anna, and Kate. Caroline is known for her work as the CEO of Alameda Research, a defunct cryptocurrency trading firm tied to the collapse of FTX, for which she has pleaded guilty to multiple financial crimes.{{Cite web |title=MIT SHASS: News - 2013 - MIT economist Ellison's Hard Math books inspire young students |url=https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2013-mit-economist-ellisons-hard-math-books-inspire-young-students |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=shass.mit.edu |archive-date=2023-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101080223/https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2013-mit-economist-ellisons-hard-math-books-inspire-young-students |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Former head of FTX is not SEC chair's daughter |url=https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-sec-chair-ftx-ceo-daughter-679417036876 |access-date=25 November 2022 |work=AP NEWS |date=18 November 2022 |language=en |archive-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125095008/https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-sec-chair-ftx-ceo-daughter-679417036876 |url-status=live }}
Ellison spends time as a math coach for schoolchildren and wrote textbooks for the purpose.{{Cite web |author=Staff Writer |title=Newton's Middle School all-female math squad scores at state championship |url=https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/newton-tab/2010/03/16/newton-s-middle-school-all/37272542007/ |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=Wicked Local |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230124233/https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/newton-tab/2010/03/16/newton-s-middle-school-all/37272542007/ |url-status=live }}
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External links
- Website at MIT: https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/glenn-ellison {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420064606/https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/glenn-ellison |date=2024-04-20 }}
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