Co-Founder
James Robinson is a University Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. In 2024, he was honored as a Co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences for work on the connection between institutions and prosperity. He was previously the David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the co-author of several books with Daron Acemoglu, including Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, and Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Professor Robinson obtained a B.Sc. in Economics at the London School of Economics, an M.A. at the University of Warwick, and a Ph.D. in Economics at Yale University