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Michael Robert Kremer (born November 12, 1964) is an American development economist currently serving as University Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago and Director of the Development Innovation Lab at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics.
Michael Kremer. University Professor in Economics and the College and the Harris School of Public Policy; Director of the Development Innovation Lab; Faculty Director, Development Economics Center at the University of Chicago. At Chicago since 2020. 2019 Nobel Laureate. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003.
Michael Kremer, a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Austria, was born in New York in the United States. His mother was a professor of literature. Kremer studied at Harvard University, receiving a doctorate in economics there in 1992.
Michael Kremer is the University Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics. He is the 2019 co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Profile. University Professor in Economics and the College and the Harris School of Public Policy (at Chicago since 2020); Director of the Development Innovation Lab; 2019 Nobel Laureate; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Member of The Econometric Society; Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
He is a co-founder of BREAD, the association of development economists. He received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University, and was the Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University from 2003 to 2020.
Telephone interview with Michael Kremer following the announcement of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel on 14 October 2019. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media.
