Matthew Weinzierl

Matthew C. Weinzierl is a professor at Harvard Business School, where his award-winning research and teaching focus on economic policy and the economics and business of space. He is the founder of the Economics of Space project and the SPACE course at HBS, and he serves as a frequent advisor on space to government agencies, companies, and investors. Throughout this work, he seeks to use the tools of economics to help humanity responsibly realize the promise of space. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and previously he worked at McKinsey & Company and the White House Council of Economic Advisers. At HBS he holds the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling chair and serves as Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA program.