Yair Tauman

Yair Tauman (born January 20, 1948) is a Leading Professor of Economics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and the Director of the Center for Game Theory in Economics at Stony Brook. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he obtained his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics, the latter two under the supervision of Robert Aumann. His areas of research interests are game theory and industrial organization. He has published, among others, in Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Theory, Quarterly Journal of Economics and RAND Journal of Economics.

Tauman has been the organizer of the longest and most established series of International Summer Conferences in Game Theory (for over 25 years) and has been on the Faculty at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and served as the dean of the business school at the Interdisciplinary Center in Hertziya, Israel.