Bio

William Zame (Ph.D., Mathematics, Tulane University 1970) is Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Economics and of Mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he has been on the faculty since 1991. Before coming to UCLA he held appointments in the Mathematics Departments of Rice University, Tulane University and the State University of New York at Buffalo, and in the Economics and Mathematics Departments at The Johns Hopkins University. He has also held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Washington, the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the Institut Mittag-Leffler, the University of Copenhagen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the University of California at Berkeley and the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society (since 1994) and of Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (since 2011); he was a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2004-2005) and the Lionel McKenzie Lecturer, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (2013).