HUGO SONNENSCHEIN

Hugo Sonnenschein is the Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor and President Emeritus of the University of Chicago. He served as president of the university from 1993 to 2000. Before then he was Provost of Princeton University (1991 to 1993), and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania (1988 to 1991). Professor Sonnenschein is a microeconomist whose research has focused on theories of consumer and firm behavior, general economic equilibrium, game theory and social choice. His most important scholarly work concerns the structure of aggregate demand functions. Sonnenschein is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 1990), a fellow of the American Academy of arts and Sciences (elected 1984), and a member of the American Philosophical Society (elected 2001). He served as President of the Econometric Society in 1988 and was the editor of its journal, Econometrica, from 1977 to 1984. He is a former chairman of the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory, and an honorary member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester, COSEPUP of the National Academy of Sciences, the Board of Directors of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, as well as the Board of Directors of several mutual funds of the Van Kampen complex. Sonnenschein received his Bachelor's Degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1961, and his Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University in 1964. He is the recipient of honorary doctoral degrees from numerous universities including Tel Aviv University and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.