Prof. Dr. Robert John Aumann on The Role of Incentives in the World Financial Crisis

Born in 1930. Fleeing Nazi persecution, Robert Aumann emigrated to the United States with his family in 1938, settling in New York. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the City College of New York in 1950 and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1955.

He joined the mathematics department at the Hebrew University Jerusalem in 1956, and has been there ever since. In 1990, he was among the founders of the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University, an interdisciplinary research center, centered on Game Theory.

Robert Aumann is the author of over ninety scientific papers as well as six books and has held visiting positions at Princeton, Yale, Berkeley, Louvain, Stanford, Stony Brook and New York University (NYU). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences (US), the British Academy, and the Israel Academy of Sciences. Furthermore, he holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Chicago, Bonn, Louvain, City University of New York and Bar Ilan University. Robert Aumann has received numerous prizes, including the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for 2005.

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