| Shlomo Weber | |
| Birth Date: | 1949 9, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, USSR |
| Nationality: | American |
| Institution: | New Economic School |
| Field: | Game theory, political economy and public economics, diversity |
| Alma Mater: | Moscow State University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Awards: | Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Outstanding Foreign Scientists |
Shlomo Weber (born 2 September 1949) is an economics professor and president, New Economic School in Moscow, Russia;[1] Academic Director of the Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions at NES; Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University.
His main research interests are diversity, game theory and political economy, though also public economics and economy of the former USSR, of Eastern Europe and Central Asia have been noted.[2]
Weber earned a degree of Master of Science in mathematics from the Moscow State University in 1971. Eight years later at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, he became a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematical economics. He is a professor in economics, since 1993 affiliated with the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, U.S. and has Canadian and American citizenships.[3] [4] He also serves on the board of trustees at Graduate School of Economics and Management of UrFU.
Weber's teaching experience includes political economy, microeconomic theory, welfare economics, industrial organization, microfoundations of macroeconomics, principles of economics, price theory, public choice, public economics, game theory, social choice, advanced economic analysis, mathematical analysis for economists, operations research.
Between 1980 and 1986 Shlomo Weber had been a lecturer, visiting scholar, senior lecturer, associate professor or visiting associate professor at departments of economics of universities in Israel (Haifa), the USA (Yale, Institute for Mathematics in Social Sciences at Stanford), and Canada (U of T, York). At the latter university he was Professor of Economics from 1987 till 1993 though in 1990–91 visiting professor at the University of Bonn in Germany.
(CORE) of the Catholic University in Louvain-la-Neuve.[5]Weber has won the following awards:[6]
| 1980-81 | Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow | University of Bonn, Germany. | |
| 1992 | Visiting E.H.E.S.S. Professorship | DELTA (since 2005 part of PSE), Paris, France. | |
| 1993 | Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow | Technical University of Dresden, Germany. | |
| 1994 | Casa di Risparmio Visiting Professorship | University of Venice, Italy. | |
| 1994 | Visiting Scholar Tokyo Center for Economic Research | University of Tokyo, Japan. | |
| 1995 | Casa di Risparmio Visiting Professorship | University of Venice, Italy. | |
| 1996 | Visiting E.H.E.S.S. Professorship | GREQAM, France. | |
| 1996 | SEW - EURODRIVE Foundation Visiting Professorship | Dresden, Germany. | |
| 2000 | Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship | Tokyo, Japan. | |
| 2002 | Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Outstanding Foreign Scientists | Technical University of Dresden, Germany. | |
| 2004 | Visiting E.H.E.S.S. Professorship | University of Toulouse, France. | |
| 2013 | Winner of the National Megagrant Competition,3rd wave, The Ministry of Education and Science. | Russian Federation |
More than a hundred articles by Shlomo Weber have been published in scientific journals on economics and on political sciences[7]