John A. List is the Director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics and the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on questions in microeconomics, with a particular emphasis on using field experiments to address both positive and normative issues. 

List has received numerous awards for his contributions to economics, including the Kenneth Galbraith Award, the Adam Smith Award, the John von Neumann Award, the Omicron Delta Epsilon Distinguished Economist Award, the Cho Prize, the Bernoulli Prize, the Klein Prize, the Yrjö Jahnsson Lecture Prize, and the Kenneth Arrow Prize. He was also named a Top 50 Innovator in the NonProfit Times in both 2015 and 2016 for his work on charitable giving. He served in the White House on the Council of Economic Advisers from 2002 to 2003 and is a Research Associate at the NBER, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), a University Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF), and a University Fellow at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, a Fellow of both The Econometric Society and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and an elected Member of the America Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds the position of Visiting Robert F. Hartsook Chair in Fundraising at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and serves as Editor of the Journal of Political Economy and Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wyoming.

At Chicago since 2005