Susan Carleton Athey

Susan Carleton Athey (born November 29, 1970) is an American microeconomist. She is the Economics of Technology Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Stanford, she has been a professor at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal. She served as the consulting chief economist for Microsoft for six years[3] and was a consulting researcher to Microsoft Research. She is currently on the boards of Expedia, Lending Club, Rover, Turo, Ripple, and non-profit Innovations for Poverty Action.[3] She also serves as the senior fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. She is an associate director for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the director of Golub Capital Social Impact Lab.

Athey has been married to economist Guido Imbens, Nobel Laureate in Economics 2021, since 2002.

Academic awards:

• Duke University Alice Baldwin Memorial Scholarship, 1990-1991
• Mary Love Collins Scholarship, Chi Omega Foundation, 1991-1992
• Jaedicke Scholar, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1992-1993
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1994
• State Farm Dissertation Award in Business, 1994
• State Farm Dissertation Award (1995)
• Elaine Bennett Research Prize (2000)
• Fellow of the Econometric Society (2004)
• John Bates Clark Medal (2007)
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008)
• Stanford University Leiberman Fellowship
• Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2012)
• Honorary Degree, Duke University (2009)
• Fisher-Shultz Lecture, Econometric Society (2011)
• Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize (2016)
• John von Neumann Award (2019)
• CME Group - MSRI Prize (2019)