Gary S. Becker, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science in 1992, is the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and University Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago. Becker is recognized for his expertise in human capital, economics of the family and economic analysis of crime, discrimination and population.

Becker is a featured monthly columnist for Business Week magazine and served as an economic policy adviser for the Dole Presidential Campaign in 1996. He received the National Medal of Science in 2000 for his work in social policy. He is the 2004 recipient of the Jacob Mincer Prize for lifetime achievement in the field of labor economics and is one of the initial fellows of the Society of Labor Economists.

His other professional activities include serving as a research associate of the Economics Research Center at the National Opinion Research Center (1980– ) and as an associate member of the Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy for the Ministry of Finance in Japan (1988– ). In addition to being a Nobel laureate, Becker is a recipient of the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom.