Daron Acemoglu wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

MIT economist Daron Acemoglu has won this year’s BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Economics, Finance, and Management, in honor of his prolific research contributions that have helped reshape his discipline over the last two decades.

Acemoglu received his BA from the University of York, in England, and his MS and PhD, in 1992, from the London School of Economics. He joined the MIT faculty in 1993 and has spent his entire career as a professor at the Institute.

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