Prof. Alvin E. Roth

2012 Nobel Laureate for Economics at Harvard University and Stanford University in Cambridge and Stanford/USA

Prof. Roth is one of the founders and designers of kidney exchange which helps incompatible patient-donor pairs find life-saving compatible kidneys for transplantation.

Biography:

Prof. Alvin Eliot Roth is the Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George Gund Professor Emeritus of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard University, who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics “for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”. He directed the redesign of the clearinghouse through which most American doctors find their first employment as residents at American hospitals and has helped reorganize the process by which children are matched to schools in several large American cities. For many years he has worked on helping to make kidney transplants more available by organizing kidney exchange, a process by which incompatible patient-donor pairs find compatible kidneys for transplantation. This has now become a standard form of transplantation in the United States, and its use is growing around the world, allowing patients within and across borders to benefit from the gift of a life-saving kidney transplant.

Topic of keynote speech:

• Markets, market design and medicine

Schedule:

Monday, April 20, 2026:

14:00 Public keynote speech and dialogue at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu

Further information and free seat reservation via phone +886-3-5162498 or email
dgs@my.nthu.edu.tw