Atif Mian

Atif R. Mian is an American economist, the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His work involves the connections between finance and the macro economy.

He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics with computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, and completed his doctorate in economics at MIT in 2001. After working as a faculty member at the University of Chicago (2001–2009) and University of California, Berkeley (2009–2012), he joined the Princeton faculty in 2012. In 2014, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified Mian as one of twenty-five young economists who it expects will shape the world's thinking about the global economy in the future.

Mian is the author of the book House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again (with Amir Sufi, University of Chicago Press, 2014). It was shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book Of The Year, and won The Gordon J. Laing Prize of the University of Chicago Press.