Economics professor Oliver S.D. Hart was made a knight by King Charles III, the British government announced last week.
Hart, who received a 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in contract theory, was made a Knight Bachelor as part of the King’s birthday honors. The Knight Bachelor is the oldest knighthood in the United Kingdom.
The 74-year-old joined the Harvard faculty in 1993, chaired the Economics department from 2000 to 2003, and in 2020, was appointed a University professor — Harvard’s highest faculty rank.
In a Monday interview, Hart said he had known about the honor for a few weeks before the announcement after a call from the British consulate in Boston.
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