Fellowships

The International Economic Association has instituted two honorific fellowship awards: the Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellow and IEA Fellow. For both categories of fellowship, the IEA announced an initial group in each category. Thereafter, a nominating committee is formed and seeks nominees from around the world to create a list of candidates who will be put up for vote. The same nominating committee will be responsible for the selection of both the Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellows and IEA Fellows.

Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellows

The Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellows will (excluding the initial set) be selected every three years and shortly before the World Congress. The Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished award will take place at small ceremony at the respective IEA World Congress. Effort will be made to bring the new Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellows to the Congress for the occasion.
Initially, the title of Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellow was conferred to all living past presidents of IEA from the time of inception of IEA. Thereafter, starting with the World Congress in 2021, every three years, the IEA will confer this title to up to 6 distinguished economists at a time, who have made significant contribution to economics, especially in the area of international economic development and who have an outstanding record of research and, ideally, some influence on policymaking.

Conferred to: distinguished economists worldwide

Frequency: every three years

Next award date: December 2026 presented at IEA World Congress

Number of awards: up to 6.

Objectives and Activities of the Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellows
The objectives of the Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellow are to recognize economists for their outstanding contribution to economics.
The Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellow will contribute towards promoting the work, goals and activities of the International Economic Association.
There shall be regular communications between the International Economic Association and the Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellow on the goals, policies, activities and accomplishments of the International Economic Association.

IEA Fellows

IEA Fellows will be announced every year. Effort will be made to achieve regional diversity and gender balance. We should recognize excellence in research publications and in research-driven contributions to popular writing, economics curriculum, and policy work.

The Nominating Committee will take it upon itself to ensure regional diversity and gender balance.

As for the initial set of IEA Fellows, all living Executive Committee members of IEA, since its inception, were conferred the title of IEA Fellow. Thereafter, up to 10 IEA Fellows will be selected each year by the Nominating Committee.

For this purpose, the nominating committee will put together a list of names. The Executive Committee and members of the Council will be invited to nominate candidates for the award; the nominating committee will have the right to add on more names. The nominating committee will then create a short list and put this up for vote by all Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellows and IEA Fellows.

Conferred to: economists worldwide who have made an important contribution through the creation or dissemination of new ideas and high-quality policy work

Frequency: annual

Next award date: 2024

Number of awards each year: 10

The IEA is pleased to announce that the 2023 IEA Fellow Award has been given to:

Danny Quah, NUS
Marc Melitz, Harvard
Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics
Adam Szeidl, Central European University
Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ashwini Deshpande, Ashoka
Vera Songwe, Brookings
Gordon Hanson, Harvard
Sascha Becker, Monash U
Indermit Singh Gill, The World Bank
Miaojie Yu, Liaoning University

The IEA is pleased to announce that the 2024 Schumpeter-Haberler Award has been given to:

Manuel Arellano, CEMFI
Francois Bourguignon, Paris School of Economics
Richard Nelson, Columbia University
Justin Lin, Peking University
José Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University
Mari Pangestu, World Bank

Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellows Awards 2021

Richard Baldwin (IHEID – Graduate Institute)
Esther Duflo (MIT)
Gita Gopinath (IMF)
Guido Tabellini (Bocconi University)

Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished Fellows Awards 2018

Timothy Besley (London School of Economics)
Guillermo Calvo (Columbia University)
Jacques Drèze (University of Louvain)
Janos Kornai (Harvard University)
Robert Solow (MIT)
Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University)
Alessandro Vercelli (Universita di Siena)
Amartya Sen (Harvard University)

IEA Fellow Awards 2022

Abul Barkat, Bangladesh Economic Association
Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University
Lisa Cameron, U. of Melbourne
Marcela Eslava, Universidad de los Andes
Celestin Monga, Kennedy School, Harvard University
Siddiqur Osmani, Ulster University, Belfast and BRAC University, Dhaka
Assaf Razin, Tel Aviv University
Andrea Weber,Central European University
Lili Yan Ing, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
Klaus F. Zimmermann, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University, GLO & Bonn University

IEA Fellow Awards 2021

Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex)
Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics)
Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University)
Vijayendra Rao (World Bank)

IEA Fellow Awards 2018

Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
Bina Agarwal (University of Manchester)
Fuad Aleskerov (HSE University)
Aloisio Araujo (FGV EPGE)
Ken Binmore (University College London)
Eliana Cardoso (EESP-FGV)
Bruce Chapman (The Australian National University)
Vitor Constancio (Portugal)
Eduardo Engel (MIT)
Peter Englund (Stockholm School of Economics)
Joan Esteban (Institut d’Anàlisi Economica (CSIC) and Barcelona GSE)

Jean-Paul Fitoussi (SciencesPo)
Jacob Frenkel (JPMorgan Chase)
Gene M. Grossman (Princeton University)
Avner Greif (Stanford University)
Heba Handoussa (GDN)
Michael Hoel (UiO)
Wu Jinglian (CEIBS)
Louis Kasekende (Bank of Uganda)
Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa (University of Rome)
Timur Kuran (Duke University)
Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)
Valeri Makarov (Complutense University)

Andreu Mas-Colell (Barcelona GSE)
Mustapha Nabli (ERF)
Adrian Pagan (The University of Sydney)
Luigi Paganetto (University of Rome)
Lucas Papademos (Harvard University)
Victor Polterovich (CEMI)
Yingyi Qian (Tsinghua University)
Eytan Sheshinski (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Hans Werner Sinn (University of Munich)
Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics)
Jan Svejnar (Columbia University)
Alessandro Vercelli (University of Siena)

IEA Fellow Awards 2021

Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex)
Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics)
Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University)
Vijayendra Rao (World Bank)