Guido Imbens

Guido Imbens is a world-renowned economist whose work has fundamentally shaped how we understand causality in economics and the social sciences. In 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences alongside Joshua Angrist and David Card for his groundbreaking contributions to the analysis of causal relationships using natural experiments. A faculty member at Stanford since 2012, Imbens previously held academic positions at Harvard, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. His research focuses on econometric methods that allow economists to draw credible conclusions about cause and effect from observational and experimental data. He is also the co-author of the influential book Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences and is widely regarded as one of the leading minds in applied econometrics today.

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