AEA Distinguished Lecture Series

The AEA Distinguished Lecture is given at the Annual Meeting each year. Those who have given the lecture are listed below.

 
Michael Greenstone delivering the 2024 AEA Distinguished Lecture, "The Economics of the Global Energy Challenge"

2024 Michael Greenstone
2023 Daron Acemoglu
2022 Nathan Nunn
2021 Emmanuel Saez
2020 Marianne Bertrand
2019 David Autor
2018 David Laibson
2017 Esther Duflo
2016 John Y. Campbell
2015 Raj Chetty
2014 James Poterba
2013 Edward Glaeser
2012 Maurice Obstfeld
2011 Janet Currie
2010 Hal Varian
2009 David Card
2008 Nicholas Stern
2007 Lars Hansen
2006 Claudia Goldin
2005 Oliver Williamson
2004 Mervyn A. King
2003 Stanley Fischer
2002 Edward C. Prescott
2001 Robert E. Hall
2000 Lawrence H. Summers
1999 Finis Welch
1998 Lionel W. McKenzie
1997 D. Gale Johnson
1996 Martin S. Feldstein
1995 George P. Shultz
1994 Kenneth J. Arrow
1993 Arnold C. Harberger
1992 Jonas Kornai
1991 Meeting changed to January
1990 George A. Akerlof
1989 David Landes
1988 Henry J. Aaron
1987 Alan S. Blinder
1986 Richard A. Posner
1985 Herbert Stein
1984 Alexander K. Cairncross
1983 Thomas C. Schelling
1982 Andrew F. Brimmer
1981 George J. Stigler
1980 Lionel C. Robbins
1979 Tibor Scitovsky
1978 Alfred E. Kahn
1977 Herbert A. Simon
1976 Simon Kuznets
1975 Assar Lindbeck
1974 Alice M. Rivlin
1973 Robert M. Solow
1972 Leonid Hurwicz
1971 Joan Robinson
1970 Harry G. Johnson
1969 Nicholas Georgescu Roegen
1968 Alexander Gerschenkron
1967 Jacob Marschak
1966 Abba P. Lerner
1965 Kenneth E. Boulding
1964 W. Arthur Lewis
1963 James Tobin
1962 Jacob Viner

*The AEA Distinguished Lecture series was formerly known as the Richard T. Ely Lecture; it was re-named in 2020.