Joshua Gans

Joshua Gans is a professor of strategic management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, with a cross-appointment in the Deartment of Economics. He also serves as the chief economist of the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab. Gans holds a PhD from Stanford University and an honors degree in economics from the University of Queensland. He is a research associate of the NBER and teaches entrepreneurial strategy to MBA students at Rotman.

Gans is a prolific author, having written numerous books on various topics, including economics, innovation, and technology. His research interests span technological competition and innovation, economic growth, publishing economics, industrial organization, and regulatory economics. He has received several notable awards, including the Economic Society of Australia’s Young Economist Award (2007); fellowship in the Academy of Social Sciences, Australia (2008); and the PURC Distinguished Service Award from the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida (2019) for his contributions to regulatory economics.