Daron Acemoglu is a Research Fellow at CEPR. He is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2010. His research interests are in Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic Growth, Economic Theory, Technology, Income and Wage Inequality, Human Capital and Training, Labor Economics and Network Economics. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the British Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He is also a member of the Group of Thirty. He is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail: Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (joint with James A. Robinson), Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (with James A. Robinson). Dr Daron has received the Statistical Research Institute prize in 2021, the Global Economy Prize in 2019, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in 2018, the Carnegie Fellowship in 2017, 2016 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in 2012, distinguished Science Award from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, inaugural T. W. Shultz Prize from the University of Chicago in 2004, and the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004. Dr Daron earned his PhD and MSc from London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA from University of York.