Dirk Bergemann is Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics at Yale University.
Dirk has secondary appointments as Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Finance in the School of Management at Yale University.
He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. He joined Yale in 1995 as an assistant professor, having previously served as a faculty member at Princeton University.
He is member of Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society.
Dirk Bergemann was Chair of the Department of Economics from 2013-2019 and Co-Editor of Econometrica from 2014-2018. He is currently serving as Co-Editor of American Economic Review: Insights. Since 2022, he has been the Founding Director of the Center of Algorithm, Data and Market Design at Yale University (CADMY).
His research is in the area of game theory, contract theory, venture capital and market design. His work has been published in leading journals in economics, such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy and Review of Economics Studies. His most recent work is in the area of value and markets for data, auctions for digital advertising, information design, robust mechanism design, and pricing of algorithms, compute and software.
His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, Google Faculty Fellow, the Knight Foundation, the Omidyar Network and the German National Science Foundation. He is an Amazon Scholar.