Roth is an American economist currently serving as the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Noble prize 2012 Winner this year USA Jotnly with Lloyd Shapley

Alvin Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and market design. The best known of the markets he has designed (or, in this case, redesigned) is the National Resident Matching Program, through which approximately twenty thousand doctors a year find their first employment as residents at American hospitals. He has recently been involved in the reorganization of the market for Gastroenterology fellows, which started using a clearinghouse in 2006 for positions beginning in 2007. He helped design the high school matching system used in New York City to match approximately ninety thousand students to high schools each year, starting with students entering high school in the Fall of 2004. He helped redesign the matching system used in Boston Public Schools, adopted for students ...more

Alvin Roth is an American economist currently serving as the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard Business School

Alvin E. "Al" Roth (born December 19, 1951) is an American economist currently serving as the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Roth has made significant contributions to the fields of game theory, market design and experimental economics. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley