Hal Varian

Hal Ronald Varian ( born March 18, 1947 in Wooster, Ohio) is an American economist. Varian has worked as chief economist for Google, Inc. since July 2007.

Previously, he was a professor at the School of Information Management and Systems and at the Haas School of Business and Economics Department of the University of California, Berkeley. Other teaching assignments, he held, inter alia, at the University of Michigan, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University. For his research and publication activities, he was awarded honorary doctorates from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Oulu in Finland.

One focus of the work Varian is the information economy, which he particularly studied in the context of new media.

Varian is the author of two textbooks, which are often used in economic theory ( "Intermediate Microeconomics " and " Microeconomic Analysis" ). After graduating with a Bachelor of Science at MIT in 1969, he received in 1973 from the University of California, Berkeley, a master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in economics teaching. From 2000 to 2007, he wrote a monthly column for The New York Times.

Varian is married and has one child.