Dr. Robert J. Gordon is Stanley G. Harris Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. Gordon holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, after which he attended Oxford University in England on a Marshall Scholarship. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He taught at University of Chicago and Harvard before moving to Northwestern in 1973, where he has taught for more than 30 years and where he was the chair of the Department of Economics from 1992 to 1996.

Dr. Robert is one of the world’s leading experts on unemployment, inflation, and productivity growth. His recent research includes the U.S. productivity growth revival, work on the rise and fall of the New Economy, and the recent stalling of European productivity growth. Professor Gordon is the author of several books, more than hundred scholarly articles, and more than sixty published comments on the research of others.

Dr. Gordon is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, and a fellow of the Econometric Society.