Prof. Guido Imbens

Biography:

Guido Imbens is Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Economics Department at Stanford University and consults for tech companies in Silicon Valley. Previously he held tenured positions at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University. Imbens specializes in methods for drawing causal inferences from experimental and observational data, currently focusing on methods for bringing causality into AI models. Guido Imbens is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.

He holds honorary doctorates from the University of St. Gallen, The University of Hull, Erasmus University, and Brown University. In 2021 he shared the Nobel prizes in economics with David Card and Joshua Angrist for ``methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationship.’’



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