Scott E. Page

Scott Page
Residence	United States
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Michigan, Kellogg School of Management
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Institutions	University of Michigan
Thesis	(1993)
Doctoral advisor	Roger Myerson

Scott E. Page is an American social scientist and Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he has been working since 2000. He has also been director of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan (2009-2014) and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute (2000-2005 and 2007–present).

Page is known for his research on and modeling of diversity and complexity in the social sciences. His specific research interests include path dependence, culture, collective wisdom, adaptation, and computational models of social life. In addition to teaching at Michigan, Page also instructs the Teaching Company educational video series "Understanding Complexity" and the online "Model Thinking" course created by Coursera.

Page received his B.A. in mathematics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1985. He then received an M.A. in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1988 and an M.A. in managerial economics from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in 1990. In 1993 he earned a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences also from the Kellogg School under the guidance of Stanley Reiter and Roger Myerson (his advisors), Mark Satterthwaite, and Matthew Jackson.

Before taking his current position at Michigan, he taught at the California Institute of Technology (1993-7), the University of California - Los Angeles (1994) and the University of Iowa (1997-9).

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