Ehud Kalai, Morrison Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, has been named the first James J. O’Connor Distinguished Professor in Decision and Game Sciences. Kalai also holds an appointment as professor of mathematics.

Kalai’s research on game theory has been published in more than 60 journal articles. He is founding editor of Games and Economic Behavior, a leading journal in game theory, and co-editor of “Frontiers of Research in Economic Theory.” He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Game Theory.

Kalai is founder and executive vice president of the international Game Theory Society, chairing its First World Congress in Balbao, Spain, last year.

He is a fellow of the Econometric Society. Other honors include the Oskar Morgenstern Research Professorship at New York University in1991 and the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar Award at the California Institute of Technology in 1994.

A member of the faculty since 1975, Kalai is the founding director of Kellogg’s Center for Strategic Decision-Making. He has won two outstanding teaching awards in the Executive Masters Program. He served as chairman of the department of managerial economics and decision sciences from 1983 to 1985 and was the key organizer of the annual Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture Series.