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Professor & Former President and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago, a Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economics, and an expert in the economics of human development. His groundbreaking work with a consortium of economists, developmental psychologists, sociologists, statisticians and neuroscientists has proven that the quality of early childhood development heavily influences health, economic and social outcomes for individuals and society at large. Heckman has proven that there are great economic gains to be had by investing in the early childhood development.
James Heckman received his B.A. in mathematics from Colorado College in 1965 and his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1971. He is currently the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago where he has served since 1973 and where he directs the Economics Research Center and the Center for Social Program Evaluation at the Harris School. He is the Professor of Science and Society at University College Dublin. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation.
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Professor & Former President and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Expert on Strategy, Globalization and Entrepreneurship
Harvard Business School Professor
Leading Scholar on Economic Crisis
Esteemed Economist & Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School
Professor at Harvard's Hult International Business School and Director of Hultâs Futures Impact Lab
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