Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT, Faculty Co-Director of MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, and a Research Affiliate at MIT's newly established Blueprint Labs;fellow of National Academy of Sciences, British Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences;winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2024 (with Co-Laureates Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson), the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Nemmers Prize, Global Economy Prize, Carnegie Fellowship, CME Prize, John Bates Clark Medal;and author of New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail (with James Robinson), The Narrow Corridor (with James Robinson) and Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity (with Simon Johnson). He holds honorary doctorates from University of Utrecht, Bosporus University, University of Athens, Bilkent University, University of Bath, Ecole Normale Superieure, Sacaly Paris, and London Business School.