Ehud Kalai

Ehud Kalai ( born December 7, 1942 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli acts in the United States mathematician.

Ehud Kalai studied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and received in 1967 a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then went to Cornell University, where he in 1972 with the dissertation Cooperative Non- Payment Side Games: received his doctorate Extensions of Side Game Payment Solutions, Metrics, and Representative Functions under William Lucas. Following a stint as an assistant professor in Tel Aviv (1972-1975), he joined the Northwestern University in Illinois, he belongs to the present. He is a professor of decision and game theory at the Kellogg School of Management.

Kalais work area is game theory with applications in economics and social sciences. He is the founder and editor of Games and Economic Behavior, an important journal of game theory, and founding member of the Game Theory Society. Kalai is known by the set of Kalai and Smorodinsky, which represents an alternative to Nash'schen negotiated solution.