Oliver Hart
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor
Harvard University
2016 Nobel Laureate
Oliver Hart is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University and was the 2016 co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. His research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play in the governance and boundaries of corporations.
He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Finance Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association. He has also been president of the American Law and Economics Association and a vice president of the American Economic Association. In 2023, he was made a Knight Bachelor in the King’s Birthday Honours List.
He earned his bachelor’s in mathematics at King’s College, Cambridge, his master’s at the University of Warwick, and his Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University.
