Oliver Linton is a fellow of Trinity College and is Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University, and is currently the Chair of the Faculty of Economics. Formerly, Professor of Econometrics at the London School of Economics and Professor of Economics at Yale University. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. He has published three books and nearly two hundred articles on econometrics, statistics, and empirical finance. In 2015 he was a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He was Co-editor at the Journal of Econometrics between 2014 and 2019. He is a Fellow of: the Econometric Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the British Academy. He was President of the Society for Financial Econometrics from 2021-2023. He was a lead expert in the U.K. Government Office for Science Foresight project: “The future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets”, which published in 2012. He has appeared as an expert witness in several cases involving market manipulation.
Professor Oliver Linton FBA
