Dr. Daniel Kahneman

Nobel Prize Laureate, Economics 2002

Daniel Kahneman is professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, professor emeritus of psychology at Princeton University, and a member of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Kahneman was a professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1970-1978), the University of British Columbia (1978-1986), and the University of California, Berkeley (1986-1994). Kahneman is a member of the National Academy of Science, the Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society of Experimental Psychologists and the Econometric Society. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association (1982) and the Grawemeyer Prize (2002), both jointly with Amos Tversky, the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (1995), the Hilgard Award for Career Contributions to General Psychology (1995), the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2002), the Lifetime Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association (2007), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013). Kahneman has received honorary degrees from numerous universities.