Philip J. Reny is an economic theorist whose research interests include auction theory, information aggregation, mechanism design, and game theory. His current research focuses on incorporating natural language into game theory, with an emphasis on refining sequential equilibria through simple and easily understood conventions within the language.

Reny became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015; a Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2012; a charter member of the Game Theory Society in 1999, and a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1996. He served as the Chair of the University of Chicago’s Department of Economics and as the lead editor of Journal of Political Economy.

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1988

At Chicago since 1999