Whitney Kent Newey (born July 17, 1954) is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a well-known econometrician.
from Brigham Young University in 1978, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, under supervision of Jerry A. Hausman.
From 1983 to 1988, Newey taught at Princeton University as an assistant professor.
It is also during these two years, he became a Member of Technical Staff, Bell Communications Research.
[5] During his time in Princeton University, he published many papers on econometrics.