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Ben Polak
Provost of Yale University
In office 2013–2020
Preceded by
Peter Salovey
Succeeded by
Scott Strobel
Personal details
Born
(1961-12-22) December 22, 1961 (age 62)
Education
Trinity College, Cambridge (BA) Northwestern University (MA) Harvard University (PhD)
Nationality
British
Children
3[3]
Awards
DeVane Medal (2005) for teaching[1]
Scientific career
Fields
decision theory, game theory and economic history
Institutions
New Economic School University of Melbourne Yale University
Thesis
Problems from the history of capital markets (1992)
Doctoral advisor
Jeffrey G. Williamson[2]
Benjamin "Ben" Polak (born 22 December 1961) is a British professor of economics and management and former Provost at Yale University. From 1999 to 2001 Polak was the Henry Kohn Associate Professor of Economics[4][5] and is now the inaugural William C. Brainard Professor of Economics.[6] In January 2013, he became the Provost of Yale University.[7]
Polak specialises in microeconomic theory, has published 19 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals, and is Associate editor of the Journal of Economic Theory.
In 2021 it was reported that Polak was responsible for Yale's decision to terminate the Yale Boswell Editions project, founded in 1949.[8]
^Polak and Prown are honored with DeVane Medals for teaching Yale Bulletin & Calendar, March 4, 2005 (Volume 33, Number 21)
^Ben Polak at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^"Economics chair Benjamin Polak named new Yale provost". 14 January 2013.
^Polak Assumes Kohn Associate Chair in Economics Yale Bulletin & Calendar, June 21-July 19, 1999
^"Yale School of Management - Faculty - Benjamin Polak". Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
^Benjamin Polak Is the Inaugural William C. Brainard Professor Archived July 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine from Yale University Office of Public Affairs, November 14, 2008
^"Yale University - Official University Messages". Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
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