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Curriculum Vitae

Personal

  • Born: May 7, 1933, Bozeman, Montana.
  • Married: July 24, 1971, Linda Ann Mabus.
  • Children:
    • May 28, 1973, Eric Mabus Jorgenson,
    • June 7, 1975, Kari Ann Jorgenson.
  • Grandchildren:
    • April 2, 2011, Amelia Kirsten Beausang.
    • May 2, 2015, Liam James Beausang.
    • May 16, 2021, Dalia Jorgenson.

Education

  • Harvard University, A.M., 1957; Ph.D., 1959.
  • Reed College, B.A., 1955.

Professional Societies

  • American Economic Association.
  • American Statistical Association.
  • Econometric Society.
  • Royal Economic Society.
  • Conference on Research in Income and Wealth.
  • International Association for Research in Income and Wealth.

Academic Appointments

  • Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Harvard University, 2002 to date.
  • Chairman, Department of Economics, Harvard University, 1994-97.
  • Frank William Taussig Research Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1992-94.
  • Director, Program on Technology and Economic Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1984-2005.
  • Frederic Eaton Abbe Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1980-2002.
  • Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1969-80.
  • Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1963-69.
  • Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1961-63.
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1959-61.
  • Visiting Professor of Economics, Stanford University, 1973.
  • Visiting Professor of Statistics, Oxford University, 1968.
  • Visiting Professor of Economics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1967.
  • Ford Foundation Research Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, 1962-63.

Other Employment

  • Member, Science Advisory Committee, General Motors Corporation, 1996-2002.
  • Consulting Editor, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1970-99.
  • Consultant, Data Resources, Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts, 1969-85.

Honors, Awards, Lectureships, and Fellowships

  • Doctor of Economics (honorary), University of Valencia, 2016.
  • Kotak Family Distinguished Lecture on India, Columbia University, 2016.
  • Colin Clark Lecture, University of Queensland, Australia, 2014.
  • Maddison Master Class, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2012.
  • CER-ETH/KOF Lecture, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), 2012.
  • Shaw Foundation Distinguished Lecture, Singapore Management University, 2011.
  • Theodore W. Schultz Lecture, Association for Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2010.
  • Julius Shiskin Award, Washington Statistical Society, 2010.
  • Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Kansai University, 2009.
  • Richard and Nancy Ruggles Memorial Lecture, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2008. 
  • Doctor of Social Science (honorary), Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007.  
  • Doctor of Economics (honorary), Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden, 2007.
  • Laurea Honoris Causa, University of Rome, Italy, 2006.
  • Barcelona Lecture, CREA, Barcelona, Spain, 2006.
  • Adam Smith Award, National Association for Business Economics, 2005.
  • Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University of Mannheim, Germany, 2004.
  • Bohm-Bawerk Lecture, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 2004.
  • TIGER Lecture, Leon Kozminski Academy, Warsaw, Poland, 2004.
  • Doctor of Business and Commerce (honorary), Keio University, Japan, 2003.
  • Oswald Lecture, University of Kansas, 2003.
  • Astra Zeneca/Ericsson Lecture, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm, Sweden, 2002.
  • Institute Lecture, Institute of Industrial Economics, University of Toulouse, 2001.
  • Member, American Philosophical Society, 1998.
  • Simon Kuznets Lectures, Yale University, 1994.
  • Outstanding Contribution Award, International Association of Energy Economists, 1994.
  • Miguel Sidrauski Lecture, Latin American Meeting, Econometric Society, 1993.
  • Donald Gilbert Lecture, University of Rochester, 1993.
  • Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University of Oslo, Norway, 1991.
  • Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Uppsala University, Sweden, 1991.
  • Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1989.
  • Erik Lindahl Lectures, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1987.
  • Walter Krause Lectures, Reed College, 1986.
  • John R. Commons Award, Omicron Delta Epsilon, International Honor Society in Economics, 1983.
  • Chung-Hua Lectures, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, Taiwan, 1983.
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1982.
  • Bernard T. Fain Lecture, Brown University, 1980.
  • Frank Paish Lecture, Association of University Teachers of Economics Conference, U.K., 1980.
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1978.
  • Fisher-Schultz Lecture, Third World Congress, Econometric Society, 1975.
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1975.
  • Shinzo Koizumi Lecture, Keio University, Japan, 1972.
  • John Bates Clark Medal, American Economic Association, 1971.
  • Carl M. Snyder Lectures, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1971.
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1969.
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1968-69.
  • Member, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, 1967.
  • National Science Foundation Senior Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Netherlands School of Economics, Rotterdam, 1967-68.
  • Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1965.
  • Fellow, Econometric Society, 1964.

Professional Activities

  • Member, Advisory Committee, Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2000-present; Chairman, 2004-2011.
  • Member, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, National Research Council, 1991-98; Chairman, 1998-2006.
  • Chairman, Section 54, Economic Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, 2001-03.
  • President, American Economic Association, 2000; Past President, 2001; President-Elect, 1999.
  • Member, Environmental Economics Committee, Science Advisory Board, Environmental Protection Agency, 1998-2001.
  • President, Econometric Society, 1987; Past President, 1988; First Vice President, 1986, Second Vice President, 1985.
  • Member, Board of Syndics, Harvard University Press, 1984-88.
  • Member, Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Research Council, 1978-79.
  • Executive Committee, Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, 1969-72; Chairman, 1971-72.
  • Co-Editor, Bell Journal of Economics, 1970-76.
  • Chairman, Program Committee, Second World Congress, Econometric Society, 1970.
  • Associate Editor, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1969 to 2003.
  • Managing Editor, Contributions to Economic Analysis, 1969-99.
  • Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1969-89.
  • Council, Econometric Society, 1968-73, 1985-88.
  • Editor, American Economic Review, 1967-69.
  • Member, Economics Panel, Survey of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Research Council and Social Science Research Council, 1967-69.
  • Council, American Statistical Association, 1964-66.
  • American Editor, Review of Economic Studies, 1963-67.
  • Chairman, Program Committee, North American Winter Meeting, Econometric Society, 1963.
  • Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1962-65.