Speaker biography

Roger G. Noll is professor of economics emeritus at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow emeritus in the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Dr. Noll received his B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph. D. in economics from Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford, Dr. Noll was a Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Institute Professor of Social Science and Chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He also was a Guggenheim Fellow, the winner of the annual book award of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, and the winner of the Distinguished Service Award of the Public Utilities Research Center. Dr. Noll is the author or coauthor of eleven books and over 300 essays and reviews. His primary research interests include technology policy in the United States; antitrust, regulation and privatization policies in both advanced and developing economies; the economic approach to public law, including administrative law, the judiciary, and statutory interpretation; and the economics of sports. Dr. Noll has been a member of the advisory boards of the U.S. Department of Energy, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and National Science Foundation. He also has been a member of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy of the National Research Council, and the California Council on Science and Technology.

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