b. 1957
Drew Fudenberg is an American economist and game theorist, currently the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at MIT. He is known for foundational contributions to game theory, particularly on repeated games, learning in games, and the epistemic foundations of equilibrium concepts.
Co-authored the influential textbook 'Game Theory' (1991) with Jean Tirole
Developed key results on the Folk Theorem for repeated games
Advanced the theory of learning in games with David K. Levine
Contributed to the epistemic analysis of backward induction and rationality in extensive-form games
Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences