Richard Jay Zeckhauser
Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: (617) 495-1174 Email: richard_zeckhauser@harvard.edu
Academic Positions
Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (Professor, 1972-present; Associate Professor, 1970-72; Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, 1968-70)
Faculty Associate: Eliot House, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
Chair: Fellows Program, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Member of Executive Committee: University Committee on Environment
Member: University Committee on Higher Degrees in Health Policy, Harvard University
Associate, Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Affiliate, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Financial Institutions Center
Member, OECD High Level Advisory Board on Financial Management of Large-Scale Catastrophes
Co-Editor or Associate Editor: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty; International Journal of Economic Theory and Policy; Journal of the Economics of Business; Regulation; Review of Economics and Statistics; Journal of Risk and Insurance
Academic Advisory Committee, American Enterprise Institute
Honors
Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association
Elected member, National Academy of Medicine
Fellow, Econometric Society
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, Association for Public Policy and Management
Recent Prizes and Awards
2016 Keynote Speaker, CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop, Munich
2014 Keynote Speaker, Tiber Symposium on Psychology and Economics, Tilburg, Netherlands
2014 Herbert Simon Lecture, National Chengdu University, Taiwan
2012 United States Mixed Teams Championship (2nd place), contract bridge
2009 Most Influential Course Award, Harvard Kennedy School
2008 Raymond Vernon Prize for Mentorship, Harvard Kennedy School
2008 Lee Kwan Yew Distinguished Visitor, Singapore
2008 Winner, National Institute of Health Care Management Best Paper Award
2007 United States National Mixed Pairs Champion, contract bridge
2006 Ronald H. Coase Prize, University of Chicago Law School
Memorial article on Paul Samuelson highlighting Zeckhauser. http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2009.12.20/847.html
Courses of Instruction
Analytic Frameworks for Policy (Harvard Kennedy School)
Ph.D. Dissertation Writing Course (Harvard Kennedy School)
Higher Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, September, 1968
Junior Fellowship, Society of Fellows, June, 1965 to June, 1968
A.B. in Economics, Harvard College, summa cum laude, June, 1962
Outside Activities
Trustee, The Commonwealth School, 1994-present. Executive Committee, 1996-2020
Commissioner, Group Insurance Commission, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1993-2005
Academic Advisory Committee, American Enterprise Institute, 1997-present
Principal, Senior Advisor, Equity Resource Investments, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005-present
Founder, Director, and Principal, Niederhoffer, Cross and Zeckhauser, Inc., New York, (investment banking), 1967-1984
Director, various startup companies, 1985-present (Recovery Engineering, Inc., sold to Procter & Gamble; Johnson-Grace, Inc., sold to AOL)