Directors, 1932 - Present Cowles Commission Alfred Cowles Cowles Commission Founder and President (1932-34); Director (1932-38) Charles F. Roos Cowles Commission Director (1934-37); Advisor (1937-39) Harold T. Davis Cowles Commission Acting Director (1937); Advisor (1937-39) Theodore O. Yntema Cowles Commission Director (1938-1942) Jacob Marschak Cowles Commission Director (1943-48) Tjalling C. Koopmans Cowles Commission Director (1948-55); Cowles Foundation Director (1961-64, 1965-67) Cowles Foundation James Tobin Cowles Foundation Director (1955-61, 1964-65); Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics and Nobel Laureate Tjalling C. Koopmans Cowles Commission Director (1948-55); Cowles Foundation Director (1961-64, 1965-67) Herbert E. Scarf Cowles Foundation Director (1961-64, 1965-67); Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics William Brainard Professor Emeritus of Economics; Cowles Foundation Director (1971-73, 1976-81) Martin Shubik Cowles Foundation Director (1973-76); Seymour H. Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics Alvin Klevorick John Thomas Smith Professor of Law and Professor of Economics; Cowles Foundation Director (1984-96) John Geanakoplos James Tobin Professor of Economics; Cowles Foundation Director (1996-2005) Philip Haile Ford Foundation Professor of Economics and Professor of Management; Cowles Foundation Director (2005-11) Donald Andrews Tjalling C. Koopmans Professor of Economics and Professor of Management; Cowles Foundation Director (2011-14) Larry Samuelson A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics and Professor of Management; Cowles Foundation Director (2014-20) Marina Halac Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics; Cowles Foundation Director (2020-23) Samuel Kortum Departmental Chair; James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics; Cowles Foundation Director (2023-25) Philipp Strack Cowles Foundation Director; Cowles Foundation Professor of Economics
Tjalling C. Koopmans Cowles Commission Director (1948-55); Cowles Foundation Director (1961-64, 1965-67)
James Tobin Cowles Foundation Director (1955-61, 1964-65); Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics and Nobel Laureate
Tjalling C. Koopmans Cowles Commission Director (1948-55); Cowles Foundation Director (1961-64, 1965-67)
Herbert E. Scarf Cowles Foundation Director (1961-64, 1965-67); Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics
Martin Shubik Cowles Foundation Director (1973-76); Seymour H. Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics
Alvin Klevorick John Thomas Smith Professor of Law and Professor of Economics; Cowles Foundation Director (1984-96)
Philip Haile Ford Foundation Professor of Economics and Professor of Management; Cowles Foundation Director (2005-11)
Donald Andrews Tjalling C. Koopmans Professor of Economics and Professor of Management; Cowles Foundation Director (2011-14)
Larry Samuelson A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics and Professor of Management; Cowles Foundation Director (2014-20)
Samuel Kortum Departmental Chair; James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics; Cowles Foundation Director (2023-25)
