Jonathan Levin is the Philip H. Knight Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to his current appointment, he served as Chair of Stanford's Department of Economics, and as the Director of the Industrial Organization Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research is in the field of industrial organization, particularly the economics of contracting, organizations, and market design. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and has been a Sloan Research Fellow, an NSF Career Award recipient, and winner of department and school-wide teaching awards. In 2011, he received the John Bates Clark Medal as the economist under the age of forty who has made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.