Bertha C. and Roy E. Leigh Distinguished Lecture in Economics
This is a university-wide lecture made possible by a generous gift from the family of Duane Leigh, Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Economics Department at Washington State University. The Bertha C. and Roy E. Leigh Distinguished Lecture Endowment was established in 2001 by Duane’s father, the late Roy E. Leigh to honor his wife.
2010 Leigh Lecture Speaker
Robert E. Lucas, Jr., University of Chicago
Robert E. Lucas, Jr. is the John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Nobel Laureate 1995.
Previous Leigh Lecture Speakers
- Jerry A. Hausman, 2009, John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at MIT in Cambridge.
- Timothy Kehoe, 2008, Distinguished McKnight Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota.
- James J. Heckman, 2007, Nobel Laureate 2000, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago.
- Daniel J. McFadden, 2006, Nobel Laureate 2000, E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics, Director of the Econometrics Laboratory, and Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Kathryn Shaw, 2005, Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University
- Alan Auerbach, 2004, Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law Director, University of California, Berkeley
- Kerry Smith, 2003, University Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University.
- Ed Lazear, 2002, Jack Steel Parker Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics, Stanford University.
- Hal Varian, 2001, Class of 1944 Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration and Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley.
Contact Info
Jill McCluskey, Chair
509-335-2835
Danielle Engelhardt
509-335-1866
Bertha and Roy Leigh
Images from previous Leigh Lectures
WSU President Emeritus Lane and Mary Jo Rawlins, Roy Leigh, Daniel McFadden, Joan and Duane Leigh
Leigh family with Alan Auerbach
More pictures can be found on individual pages linked on the left.