Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics. He was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019. His primary research fields include political economy, development economics, and labor economics. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2024. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024, announced October 14, 2024. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson, “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”. Daron Acemoglu: born 1967, Istanbul, Turkey. Simon Johnson: born 1963, Sheffield, United Kingdom. James A. Robinson: born 1960. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).