Scott Schaefer is the Dumke Family Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business, Chair of the Department of Economics, Chair of the Division of Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations (QAMO), and Special Advisor to University President Taylor Randall. He is leading a multi-year effort to bring Economics and QAMO together in a new School of Economics. His work as an academic leader has focused on building new programs and organizations, expanding faculty and research capacity, strengthening student pathways, and addressing university-wide strategic issues.

Schaefer joined the University of Utah in 2005 and served as Associate Dean of the David Eccles School of Business from 2009 to 2012. Before joining Utah, he was a faculty member at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He earned his PhD in Economic Analysis and Policy from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.