George Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Akerlof was awarded the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz, "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information." He is the husband of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001, announced October 10, 2001. George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, “for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information”. George A. Akerlof: born 1940, New Haven, CT, USA. A. Michael Spence: born 1943, Montclair, NJ, USA. Joseph E. Stiglitz: born 1943, Gary, IN, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).