Emil Verner

Emil Verner and Rama Ramakrishnan were each awarded the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching, established to honor educational innovation and excellence. The Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award is the most prestigious teaching prize offered by the School. The award was established in 2006 and is awarded each year to two MIT Sloan faculty members, as well as two electrical engineering and computer science faculty members, for their contributions to educational excellence at MIT.

The prize was announced for Verner and Ramakrishnan at the 2025 MIT Sloan Excellence in Teaching Awards for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Emil Verner (Albert F. (1942) & Jeanne P. Clear Career Development Associate Professor in Global Management and Associate Professor of Finance) has received a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which is “dedicated to improving the welfare of all through the advancement of scientific knowledge.” This honor recognizes outstanding creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments; the achievements and potential of awarded Sloan Research Fellows “place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada.”

Verner is one of seven MIT faculty members among the 126 Sloan Research Fellows chosen this year from over 1,000 nominations of early-career scholars by fellow scientists across seven fields—chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics (Verner’s awarded area), mathematics, neuroscience, and physics.

Emil Verner, Albert F. (1942) & Jeanne P. Clear Career Development Associate Professor in Global Management and Associate Professor of Finance, is a recipient of the Excellence Awards in Global Economic Affairs 2024 from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. These awards recognize outstanding young economists in order “to build a community of the brightest young researchers in the area of global economic affairs.”

The citation recognizes Verner’s “significant contributions to the field of Macro-finance and International Economics”; “Verner’s outstanding research contributed to a better understanding of past recessions and crises to help prevent future economic crises.”

The award was announced in October 2024 and the awards ceremony was held during the 3^rd Kiel-CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) Conference on Geoeconomics in Berlin, Germany.

Emil Verner has won the 2021 European Systemic Risk Board’s Ieke van den Burg Prize, which recognizes outstanding research conducted by young scholars on a topic related to the ESRB’s mission in the macroprudential oversight of the European Union financial system and the prevention and mitigation of systemic risk. The prize is administered in the spirit of its namesake’s dedication to the belief that finance should serve society.  Verner’s winning paper, “Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations,” was co-authored with Karsten Müller (Princeton).