Andrei Schleifer is a renowned speaker on international economics and behavioral finance. He is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from MIT. Shleifer has worked on corporate governance, law and finance, behavioral finance, and institutional economics.

He has published four books, including The Grabbing Hand (with Robert Vishny) and Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance, as well as over a hundred articles. Shleifer has served as the Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics between 1989 and 1999 and the Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives between 2003 and 2008. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999, Shleifer won the John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic Association. According to RePEc, Shleifer is the most cited economist in the world.

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