Stefano DellaVigna

Stefano DellaVigna is an Italian economist known for his work in behavioral and applied economics. He joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the Daniel E. Koshland Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served as chair of the Department of Economics since 2025. He has also been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is also the winner of multiple Distinguished Teaching Awards and a Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. He has published several articles in leading international journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, and the American Economic Review. He served as a co-editor of the American Economic Review from 2017 to 2023. He was also an Editor of the Handbook of Behavioral Economics, first published in 2018.