Caroline Ellison Father: Who Is Glenn Ellison?

Glenn Ellison is the father of Caroline Ellison.

Caroline’s father Glenn David Ellison is an American economist who is Gregory K. Palm Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Elected Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory and American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Throughout his education, Ellison received A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard College. He went on to Cambridge University on a Churchill Scholarship and received an M.Phil. in Economics in 1988.

He then worked briefly as an Associate at Charles River Associates between 1988 and 1989. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in Economics in 1992 under the supervision of Drew Fudenberg.

Ellison is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and has received several awards, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.

He has served on the National Science Foundation Economics Panel and as a council member for the Econometric Society.