Atkinson Memorial Lecture 2025

Incentive-compatible information design

The Global Priorities Institute and the Oxford Department of Economics is pleased to announce the Atkinson Memorial Lecture 2025, delivered by Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University). The lecture titled "Incentive-compatible information design" will be presented at the Manor Road Building in Oxford. This event is available to watch in-person and live online.

For meetings with the speaker on 18th June please email gpi-office@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

3:30pm - 5pm, Wednesday 18th June 2025
Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, OX1 3UQ

This event will be followed by a drinks reception for in-person attendees.

Please click HERE to register for this event

 

About the speaker

 

Jeffrey Ely

Northwestern University

Charles E. and Emma Morrison Professor

Jeff Ely is a microeconomic theorist with interests ranging from pure game theory to applied microeconomics to behavioral and experimental economics. His work includes contributions to the foundations of game theory under incomplete information, repeated games, and mechanism design, the evolution of preferences, and torture. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was a founding co-editor of the open access journal Theoretical Economics.

 

 

About the Atkinson Memorial Lecture

 

In memory of Professor Sir Tony Atkinson.

 

The Atkinson Memorial Lecture is an annual distinguished lecture series established in 2018 in memory of Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, jointly by the Global Priorities Institute (GPI) and the Department of Economics. The aim is to encourage research among academic economists on topics related to global prioritisation - using evidence and reason to figure out the most effective ways to improve the world.

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