Professors Freeman and Rotemberg are recognized as two of four Distinguished Fellows of the AEA named annually.
The AEA website describes this honor, "The Distinguished Fellow awards recognize the lifetime research contributions of four distinguished economists. Since 1965, past presidents of the AEA are recognized as Distinguished Fellows, and up to four additional individuals may be elected for the award in one calendar year. Distinguished Fellows are selected by the AEA Nominating Committee and voting members of the Executive Committee, sitting together as an electoral college. A list of current and past Distinguished Fellows is available [here]." (Prof. Freeman is pictured at right.)
Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and is Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. He directs the National Bureau of Economic Research / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Projects, and is Co-Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities.
Freeman received the Mincer Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Society of Labor Economics in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics. In 2011 he was appointed Frances Perkins Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. In 2016 he received the Global Equity Organization (GEO) Judges Award, honoring exceptional contribution towards the promotion of of global employee share ownership. Also in 2016, he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association; the award citation describes Richard as "an enormously innovative labor economist who has made pioneering contributions to virtually every aspect of the field."
Julio J. Rotemberg is William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration and Unit Head, Business, Government and the International Economy. He received his B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1981. He first came to the Harvard Business School as a one-year visiting professor in 1995 and he became a member of the faculty in 1997. At HBS, he has taught Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) in both the MBA and the AMP programs, and is currently teaching it in the MBA program. In the MBA program, he has also taught Business History and First Year Marketing. From 1980 to 1996 he was on the faculty at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught macro and international economics.