John Morgan | |
Birth Date: | 11 November 1967 |
Birth Place: | Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania |
Death Place: | Walnut Creek, California |
Nationality: | United States |
Fields: | Economics |
Alma Mater: | B.S. (1989), University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. (1996), Pennsylvania State University |
Awards: | W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow |
John Morgan (November 11, 1967 – October 6, 2021) was the Oliver E. Williamson and Dolores J. Williamson Chair in the Economics of Organizations at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
He was the founding director of the U.C. Berkeley Experimental Social Sciences Laboratory (Xlab). He was a member of the editorial board of the California Management Review since 2003.[2] He was the faculty leader of the Center for Executive Education at UC Berkeley.[3]
Morgan was born on November 11, 1967, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.[4] He received his B.S. in economics summa cum laude in 1989 from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. in 1996 from Pennsylvania State University. His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled Essays on Auctions, Lotteries, and Contracts, was written under the supervision of Vijay Krishna, Professor of Economics Penn State University.[5]
He worked with Bankruptcy and Forensic Accounting Group, Grant Thornton International, from 1989 to 1992, and as Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University from 1996 to 2002. He was also a visiting professor at Pennsylvania State University, New York University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.
Morgan died on October 6, 2021, in Walnut Creek, California.[4]