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José Alexandre Scheinkman is a Brazilian-American mathematical economist, currently the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He spent the bulk of his career at the University of Chicago, where he served as department chair immediately prior to his departure for Princeton. Prior to immigrating to the United States to study for his PhD in Economics at the University of Rochester, he grew up and was educated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While his research interests have spanned a wide range of topics, he is best known for his work in mathematical economics and finance, oligopoly theory and the social economics of cities and crime; he also help spur the development of work at the intersection of economics, finance and physics. Scheinkman also famously pioneered the now-ubiquitous application of academic financial theory to practical risk management of fixed incomes during a leave he took as Vice President in the Financial Strategies Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. during the late 1980s.
Since coming to Princeton, Scheinkman's research has focused increasingly on finance. He continues his involvement in practical finance as a founder and partner of Axiom Investments, a successful hedge fund. as well as in the public affairs of Brazil through writing and consulting. He is also well known as the thesis adviser of prominent economists including Paul Romer, Albert Kyle, Edward Glaeser, Tano Santos, Alberto Bisin and Glen Weyl. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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