Guido W. Imbens, Nobel Prize in Economics 2021

Guido Wilhelmus Imbens (born September 3, 1963, Geldrop, the Netherlands) is a Dutch American economist. In 2021 Imbens was awarded half of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Joshua Angrist "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships", with David Card awarded the other half. He has been Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2012.

Imbens has taught at Harvard University, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. He specializes in econometrics, and in particular methods for drawing causal inference. He serves as the editor of Econometrica from 2019 to 2023.

Imbens has been married to economist Susan Athey since 2002.

Awards

• Fellow of the Econometric Society (2001)
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
• Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
• Fellow of the American Statistical Association in (2020)
• Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2021)