Business and technologyענת אדמתי

Anat Ruth Admati

Anat Admati is an Israeli-born economist and professor of finance and economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business, known for her work on banking.

born 1956The book The Bankers' New ClothesResearch on banking and financeTheory of intraday trading patterns

Occupation: economist, academic, university teacher, business administration scholar
Education: Yale University

Anat Ruth Admati was born in 1956 in Israel

Anat Ruth Admati was born in 1956 in Kiryat Gat to Sara and Ezra Admati. Her father worked as an instructor in the training service of the Ministry of Agriculture. She attended Rogozin High School in Kiryat Gat.

She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and statistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1979. At Yale University she completed a master's degree in operations research in 1981 and a PhD in 1983. Her doctoral work, supervised by Stephen Ross, dealt with asymmetric information in financial markets.

She joined the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1983 and became a full professor in 1992. Her research covers financial markets, financial contracting, portfolio management, corporate governance and banking. She directs the Corporations and Society Initiative at Stanford, and was a visiting scholar at the IMF in 2017 and 2018.

Her 2013 book The Bankers' New Clothes addressed problems in banking. In 2014 Time included her in its list of 100 influential people. She advised the TV series Silicon Valley and appeared in its final episode. She is married to Stanford economist David Kreps, and they have 3 children.