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Ben Hermalin is a noted expert in corporate governance, leadership, and the economics of organizations. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles in top journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, RAND Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Finance. He holds a professorship in the Economics Department at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, specifically as the Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professor of Finance. Hermalin served as the Chair of the Economics Department from 2005 to 2008 and as Chair of the Academic Senate from 2015 to 2016. Currently, he is the Vice Provost for Faculty at UC Berkeley and serves on the Board of Directors for the National Bureau of Economic Research. He earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988, the year he joined UC Berkeley as an assistant professor in the Economics Department and the School of Business, where he became a full professor in 1998.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Joined as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and became a full professor in 1998.
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