Liad Wagman is Dean of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lally School of Management. He was previously John and Mae Calamos Dean Endowed Chair and professor of economics at Illinois Tech's Stuart School of Business. Wagman is an academic affiliate at the International Center for Law and Economics and was senior economic and technology advisor of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning, competition fellow at the Data Catalyst Institute, and a visiting professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He has visited as a scholar or research fellow at Duke University and Stanford University. He is a recipient of the Program for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences Fellowship, a recipient of the Education and Research Initiative Award, a recipient of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Best Paper Award, and a recipient of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Paper Award. Wagman received his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Duke University and his M.S. in computer science from Stanford University.