Shlomo Weber is the Co-Director (Global) of GEAR (Greater Eurasia Research Center) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Founding Dean, School of Humanities, Social and Natural Sciences, New Uzbekistan University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Professor Weber is the Corresponding Member, Saxony Academy of Science, and Professor Emeritus, SMU, Dallas.
He has an M.S. cum laude in Mathematics from the Moscow State University, and Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the past Professor Weber served as the President and Rector of the New Economic School, Moscow, the Chair of Department of Economics, SMU, Research Director of CORE, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and Academic Director, International School of Economics, Tbilisi, Georgia. Professor Weber has taught at various Universities of North America, Europe, and Asia. He was a member of the Board at GDN (Global Development Network), EERC and NES.
He was a recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the Humboldt Prize for outstanding foreign scientists that he spent at the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Dresden. He was awarded and the Megagrant Prize from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.
His research interests include game theory, public, political, and development economics. He published more than 200 papers in leading economic and political science journals, including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies and American Political Science Review. His book (joint with Victor Ginsburgh) “How many languages do we need? Economics of linguistic diversity” was published by Princeton University Press. Professor Weber also edited “The Oxford Handbook of Russian Economy”, and “The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language”.