Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught economic theory and urban economics since 1992. He leads the Urban Economics Working Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research, co-leads the Cities Programme of the International Growth Centre, and serves as co-editor of the Journal of Urban Economics.
He has authored hundreds of papers on cities, infrastructure and related topics, and has written, co-written and co-edited 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).
Professor Glaeser has previously served as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Chair of Harvard’s Economics Department.
He is a Fellow 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 was awarded the Albert O. Hirschman Prize by the Social Science Research Council.
He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1988 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1992.
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