Prof. Nir Vulkan

Professor Nir Vulkan is a leading authority on e-commerce and market design, and on applied research and teaching on hedge funds. Alongside his role at Saïd Business School, Nir is also a Fellow of Worcester College. Nir is author of one of the leading texts on the microeconomics of e-commerce "The Economics of E-Commerce: A Strategic Guide to Understanding and Designing the Online Marketplace". More recently, Nir has edited, with Al Roth and Zvika Neeman, "The Handbook of Market Design". Mr. Vulkan did a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University and gained a doctorate in Economics at University College, London, where he was awarded the Dean Scholarship for excellence in PhD studies. He was the Director of the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (OxCEI) and the co-founder and Director of OxLab, a laboratory for social science experiments, both at Saїd Business School.