Mark Duggan

Mark Duggan is the Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Economics, University of Toronto. He was the Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He previously served as Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics and the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

Mark received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering at M.I.T. in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1999. Before arriving at Stanford in 2014, Mark was on the faculty at the University of Chicago, the University of Maryland, and the University of Pennsylvania.

The first strand of Mark's research has focused on the economics of the health care sector, especially the pharmaceutical, hospital, and health insurance industries. The second strand of his research has examined the impact of large-scale government expenditure programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. His research has been published in leading academic journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics and has been featured in many media outlets including The Economist, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Mark served from 2009-10 as the Senior Economist for Health Care Policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and from 2015-24 as the Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He received the Stanford Economics Department's Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in 2022 and Stanford's Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize in 2025.