Liad Wagman
Dean and Professor of Economics
Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Liad Wagman is dean and professor of economics at the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research examines competition and innovation in technology-driven markets, focusing on information economics, industrial organization, law & economics, entrepreneurship, data use and privacy, and antitrust policy.
Wagman previously served as dean and professor of economics, and the John and Mae Calamos Endowed Chair, at the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology, with an affiliate professorship in the Lewis College of Science and Letters. He also held several earlier faculty roles at Illinois Institute of Technology.
He was senior economic and technology advisor in the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning. In that role, he helped lead a major government study of technology-platform acquisitions and served as lead author of the U.S. contribution to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on consumer data rights and competition.
He has also been a competition fellow at the Data Catalyst Institute; a visiting associate professor of executive education and managerial economics & decision sciences at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management; a visiting scholar in the Duke University economics department; a research fellow in Duke University’s computer science department and Social Sciences Research Institute; and a researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute.
His honors include the Sigma Xi Excellence in Research Award, the Bauer Family University Excellence in Teaching Award, the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Best Paper Award, the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Paper Award, the Education and Research Initiative Award, and recognition as one of Poets & Quants’ Top 40 Business School Faculty Under 40.
He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from Duke University, a master’s in computer science from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
