Roger B. Myerson is the David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor of Global Conflict Studies in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the Harris School of Public Policy. His research focuses on game theory, mechanism design, and political science, with major contributions including refinements of Nash equilibrium, development of the revelation principle, and the revenue-equivalence theorem in auctions and bargaining.

In 2007, Myerson was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in recognition of his contributions to mechanism design theory, which analyzes rules for coordinating economic agents efficiently when they have different information and difficulty trusting each other. He is the author of Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict and Probability Models for Economic Decisions, and has written extensively for leading journals in economics and political science.

Myerson is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as president of both the Game Theory Society and the Econometric Society, and as vice president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His additional honors include the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize and several honorary degrees. Myerson earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

At Chicago since 2001