Jonathan David Levin (born November 17, 1972) is an American economist, currently serving as the 13th president of Stanford University since August 2024.
Since 2016, he has been the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business.
[4] Levin succeeds Richard Saller, who has served as Stanford's president on an interim basis since September 2023 after the resignation of Marc Tessier-Lavigne.
He was awarded the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal[6][7] as the outstanding American economist under the age of 40, regarded as the most distinguished economic title after the Nobel Prize.
[8] Levin lives in Palo Alto with his wife, Amy, a physician, and their three children.