Ehud Kalai advanced the frontiers of game theory and its interface with economics, social choice, operations research and computer science. His work opened and expanded our understanding of bargaining, strategic learning, large games and related subjects. The research is reported in over sixty scientific papers published by the leading game theory, economics, and operations journals.

Holding AB in mathematics (U. of Calif. Berkeley, 1967), MS and PhD in statistics and mathematics (Cornell, 1971, 72), Kalai joined Northwestern University in 1975 after serving as assistant professor at Tel Aviv University. He is the James J. O’Connor Distinguished Professor of Decision and Game Sciences in the Kellogg School of Management and (courtesy) Professor of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences. Past chair of the department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kalai is the founding director of the Center for Strategic Decision Making, the founding organizer of the prestigious Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture series, and repeated winner of Outstanding Teacher awards in Kellogg’s Executive Programs.

Kalai is the founding Editor of Games and Economic Behavior, the top journal in game theory today, co-founder and president of the international Game Theory Society, and Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was awarded the Oskar Morgenstern Research Professorship at New York University, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar position at the California Institute of Technology, and numerous NSF and other research grants. His consulting activities included Baxter Health Care Systems, Kaiser Permanente, Arthur Anderson, First Chicago, Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal and Israel Defense Forces among others.