Paul L. Joskow

Paul L. Joskow

Elizabeth & James Killian Professor of Economics, Emeritus

Research Fields

Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, Organizational Economics

Contact Information

Office Phone 617-253-6664
Email Address pjoskow@mit.edu
Office E52-414
Assistant Name Ruth Levitsky
Assistant Phone 617-253-3399

Bio

Paul Joskow is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and President emeritus of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Joskow has been on the MIT faculty since 1972, where he was the head of the MIT Department of Economics from 1994 to 1998 and director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research from 1999 to 2007. Joskow became president of the Sloan Foundation in 2008 and returned to MIT in 2018.  At MIT his teaching and research areas include industrial organization, energy and environmental economics, competition policy, and government regulation of industry. He is a past-president of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, a distinguished fellow of the Industrial Organization Society, a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served on the boards of the New England Electric System, National Grid PLC, TC Energy, State Farm Indemnity, Putnam Mutual Funds, Exelon Corporation, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (current).

Featured Awards & Honors

2013
Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association
1988
Fellow, Econometric Society
1991
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2007
Distinguished Fellow, Industrial Organization Society
2007
Honorary Doctorate, University of Paris, Dauphine