Elinor Ostrom, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elinor Ostrom

American political economist

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1933

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Death: 12-Jun-2012

Profession: economist, political scientist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American political economist whose work was associated with the New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy.
In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E.
Williamson.
To date, she remains the first of only two women to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, the other being Esther Duflo.
After graduating with a B.A.
and Ph.D.
from UCLA, Ostrom lived in Bloomington, Indiana, and served on the faculty of Indiana University, with a late-career affiliation with Arizona State University.
She was Distinguished Professor at Indiana University and the Arthur F.
Bentley Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, as well as research professor and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University in Tempe.
She was a lead researcher for the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM CRSP), managed by Virginia Tech and funded by USAID.
Beginning in 2008, she and her husband Vincent Ostrom advised the journal Transnational Corporations Review.