Leitner Seminar Series: Navin Kartik

Navin Kartik is Professor of Economics at Columbia University. His main areas of
research are in microeconomic theory and political economy, specifically on topics in
game theory and information economics. He received his B.A. in Economics and
Mathematics from Brandeis University in 1999 and his Ph.D. in Economics from
Stanford University in 2004. Prior to joining Columbia in 2008, he was on the faculty of
UC San Diego. He has been a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,
the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Yale University. In 2010, he
was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation “to
stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding
promise”. He has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, and
multiple teaching and Ph.D. advising awards. His research has been published by the
best economics journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the
Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. He currently serves
on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the American Economic
Review and the Review of Economic Studies.