Program Directors
An important CEAR goal is to be recognized as the leading collaborative research center enabling scholars from around the world to meaningfully interact to address the economic analysis of risk. To further this goal it has partnered with some of the world’s foremost risk scholars to serve as CEAR Program Directors. The CEAR Program Directors work with the Director to organize and operate workshops, conduct research and publish in the world’s leading journals.









Current Program Directors

Todd Swarthout
Lab Experiments

Pierre-André Chiappori
Household Decision-Making - 2011-current

Christian Gollier
Social Decision-Making - 2011-current

Mark Machina
Individual Decision-Making - 2011-current

Don Ross
Methodology - 2012-current

Thomas Rutherford
Modeling Methods - 2011-current

Elisabet Rutström
Field Experiments

Nathaniel Wilcox
Econometric Methods - 2011-current
Former Program Directors

Jean-Charles Rochet
Organizational Decision Making - 2011-2014