Stefanie Stantcheva, the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, has received the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association. The annual award is presented to an under-40 economist for their significant contributions to the field.
Dr. Stantcheva joined the Harvard faculty in 2016 as an assistant professor and earned the rank of full professor just two years into her tenure. She is the founding director of Harvard’s Social Economics Lab, where she and her team design and conduct large-scale social economics surveys and experiments that shed light on how people think about economic issues and policies. Her other areas of research include the taxation of firms and individuals, trade, immigration, climate change, and social mobility.
Outside of her work at Harvard, Dr. Stantcheva is co-editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. She is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the economic council of the French Prime Minister, and a faculty research fellow with the Center for Economic Policy Research.
Dr. Stantcheva received her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts institute of Technology.