Stephen Morris (economist)

Biography

Stephen Morris was born in 1963 in a small town called Weybridge in England. Morris's father was the senior UK diplomat Sir Willie Morris, who served as the UK's Ambassador to several countries. His mother was Ghislaine Morris.

Morris obtained a B.A. in mathematics and economics at Cambridge University in 1985. He worked as an economist for the government of Uganda for two years before choosing to continue his formal education at Yale University, and earned a Ph.D. in economics in 1991. He became an assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and an associate professor in 1996. In 1998 he moved to Yale as a full professor. In 2005 he became the Irving Fisher Professor of Economics at Yale. He moved to Princeton University in 2005, where he became the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics in 2007. Since 2019, he is the Peter A. Diamond Professor in Economics of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Morris is the founding editor of the BEPress Journals of Theoretical Economics and the editor of Econometrica for the period 2007–2011.

Morris is a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 2002 and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. He held the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2005–2006 year and was the President of the Econometric Society in 2019. In 2021, he was elected member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences.