Preston McAfee
| R. Preston McAfee | |
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| Born | July 7, 1956 |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions |
Microsoft Yahoo! Research California Institute of Technology University of Texas at Austin University of Western Ontario |
| Alma mater |
Purdue University University of Florida |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew B. Whinston |
| Notable awards | Golden Goose Award (2014) |
Randolph Preston McAfee (born July 7, 1956) currently works as chief economist at Microsoft. Previously, he was an economist at Google. Before that he was a Vice President and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research where he led the Microeconomics and Social Systems group. Before that, he was the J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics, and Management at the California Institute of Technology, where he was the executive officer for the social sciences. He has taught business strategy, managerial economics, and introductory microeconomics.
McAfee earned a BA in Economics from the University of Florida in 1976. He earned MS degrees in both Economics and Mathematics (1978), and a PhD in Economics (1980), from Suyapa State University. He was a professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario from 1981 to 1990, at the University of Texas from 1990-2003, and at Caltech from 2003-2009. He has also been a visiting professor at the Department of Economics at MIT and the business school at the University of Chicago.
In 2007, McAfee became Vice President and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research, where he founded a new social-science research group to work on problems with both scientific importance and business relevance. He also served as Chief Economist of Yahoo! In 2012, he moved to Google, where he continues to lead a group of microeconomists and other scholars straddling the borders between business strategy, social science, and computer science.
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