Benjamin E. Hermalin
Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas and Alison Schneider Distinguished Professor of Finance
and Distinguished Professor of Economics, Department of Economics
Updated November 23, 2023
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Benjamin E. Hermalin is the Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost for the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professor of Finance in the Haas School of Business and a Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics. Professor Hermalin received his PhD from MIT in 1988, the same year he joined UC Berkeley as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Business. He became a full professor in 1998. From 1999-2006 he was the Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking & Finance. He received the Schwabacher Award for outstanding teaching and research in 1993, and the Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award in 1991. He was the Interim Dean of the Haas School for most of 2002. He served as the Economics Department Chair from 2005 until 2008. He served from 2009 until 2012 (chair, 2011-12) on the campus's Budget Committee, which reviews all academic personnel matters on the campus including appointments, tenure, and promotions. He is a former co-editor of the RAND Journal of Economics. In 2014-15, he was the Vice Chair of the Academic Senate and served as Chair from August 26, 2015 until March 9, 2016. He was the Vice Provost for the Faculty from 2016 to 2022.
His areas of research include corporate governance, the study of organizations (especially leadership), industrial organization, and law & economics. He is the author of 47 peer-reviewed articles, many of which have appeared in the top journals in economics and finance. He has also authored or co-authored 17 book chapters in edited volumes and is the co-editor of the The Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Governance.Full
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