Azeem M. Shaikh is the Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and serves as Department Chair. He also holds the Thornber Research Fellowship and co-directs the Becker Friedman Institute’s Big Data Initiative. His research focuses on econometric theory, including multiple testing, resampling methods (e.g., bootstrap), and partially identified models. He has contributed to applications in policy evaluation and causal inference, with notable work on randomized experiments and imperfect compliance. Educated at Duke University (B.S. in Mathematics) and Stanford University (Ph.D. in Economics), Shaikh has been affiliated with the University of Chicago since 2007. His research has received NSF funding and prestigious awards such as the Dennis J. Aigner Award for Applied Econometrics and Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. He is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and International Association for Applied Econometrics, and serves on editorial boards of the Econometrics Journal and Journal of Econometrics . Shaikh’s work bridges theoretical econometrics with practical policy challenges, emphasizing methodological rigor in addressing real-world problems like education program evaluation and health survey biases. His recent studies explore nonrepresentative sampling in population health research and novel variance estimators for stratified experiments. Awards: Hoover Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, Econometric Society Fellowship Grants: NSF support for econometric methods in clustered data and covariate-adaptive randomization Key Contributions: Randomization inference frameworks, multiple testing adjustments, and causal effect identification under monotonicity












