Faculty Directory | Maher Said

Maher Said is a Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business. He also serves as the Academic Director of Stern’s Executive MBA Programs, overseeing the curriculum and academic experience in close collaboration with faculty and program staff.

Professor Said is an applied microeconomic theorist working at the intersection of game theory, information economics, and industrial organization. His research studies the optimal design of contracts and market mechanisms in the presence of information asymmetries, with recent work focusing on persuasion and the evaluation of forecasters, analysts, and other experts. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Professor Said teaches the core “Firms and Markets” course in Stern’s full-time and Executive MBA programs, helping students use economic reasoning to understand markets, competition, and business decisions. His teaching has been recognized with the Stern Distinguished Teaching Award and the Executive MBA “Great Professor for Year One” award. He has also been voted Stern MBA “Professor of the Year” and named to the Poets&Quants “Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors” list.

Before joining NYU Stern in 2014, Professor Said was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis and, earlier, a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England. He earned his BA in Economics and Mathematics from New York University and his PhD in Economics from Yale University.