Rachel Toni Algaze Croson is an economist currently serving as Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Minnesota, and McKnight Endowed Professor of Economics.
[1][2] Until March 2020, she served as Dean of the College of Social Science and MSU Foundation Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.
[3] Her previous positions include Dean of the School of Business at the University of Texas at Arlington;[4] Division Director of Social and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation; Director of the Negotiations Center, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Organizations, Strategy, and International Management at the University of Texas at Dallas.
[5] After receiving her Ph.D. she was Assistant and then Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School and a member of the Psychology Graduate Group of the University of Pennsylvania.
[6][7] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2021 and is appointed as a McKnight Endowed Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota.