Daniel Diermeier

Daniel Diermeier (born July 16, 1965) is a German-American political scientist and university administrator. He is currently serving as the ninth Chancellor of Vanderbilt University. Previously, Diermeier was the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he also served as Provost[2]. He succeeded Eric Isaacs on July 1, 2016, and was succeeded by Ka Yee Lee on February 1, 2020.[3]

Daniel Diermeier
Diermeier in 2016
9th Chancellor of Vanderbilt University
Assumed office
July 1, 2020
Preceded byNicholas S. Zeppos
Provost of the University of Chicago
In office
July 1, 2016 – January 31, 2020
Preceded byEric Isaacs
Succeeded byKa Yee Lee
Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy
In office
September 1, 2014 – July 1, 2016
Preceded byColm A. O'Muircheartaigh
Succeeded byKerwin Charles (interim)
Katherine Baicker
Personal details
Born (1965-07-16) July 16, 1965[1]
Berlin, Germany[1]
NationalityGerman-American
Children2[1]
Alma materUniversity of Munich (M.A.),

University of Southern California (M.A.),

University of Rochester (M.A., Ph.D)

Career

Educated at German and American Universities, Diermeier started his career as an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University before joining the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. There he was the IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice and, later, director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship. He won multiple teaching awards including Professor of the Year Award in 2010, and Alumni Professor of the Year Award in 2013.[4]

From 2014 to 2016, Diermeier served as Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy as well as the Emmet Dedmon Professor at the Harris School and The College at The University of Chicago. Under his leadership the Harris School increased the number of students and faculty,[5] expanded key areas of scholarly research and led fundraising efforts for the renovation of the award-winning the Keller Center.[6]

As Provost at UChicago, Diermeier was responsible for the academic and research programs, allocation of space across campus, and the University’s operating budget. In 2016 he reformed the University’s budgetary process. In October 2019, he announced a new funding model for doctoral education in the Divinity School, Division of the Humanities, Division of Social Sciences, and School of Social Service Administration, beginning in the 2022-23 academic year. The new model was based on three principles. First, all enrolled Ph.D. students will be funded for the duration of their program at the guaranteed stipend level. Second, teaching by Ph.D. students will be structured as mentored teaching experiences and separate from funding. Third, all funded divisions will have a total program size—the total number of PhD students across a particular school or division will be a fixed number, and new students will not be admitted until currently enrolled students graduate or leave their program.[7] At the same time, the University expanded resources to support doctoral students in mentoring and in preparing them for non-academic post-graduate careers. Another signature achievement during his tenure was launching the Diversity & Inclusion Initiative which included a campus-wide climate survey and programs to improve the faculty pipeline of underrepresented minorities and women.[8]

On December 4, 2019, Diermeier was announced as the ninth Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, beginning July 1, 2020.[9]

Diermeier is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[10] and a research fellow at the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research (CIFAR).[11] In 2014, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in political science.[12]

Research

Diermeier has published four books and more than 100 research articles in academic journals, mostly in the fields of political science, economics and management, but also in other areas ranging from linguistics, sociology and psychology to computer science, operations research and applied mathematics.[13]

Diermeier has contributed to the theory of legislative institutions, including the study of committees in the U.S. Congress, governing coalitions in multi-party democracies and the formation and stability of coalition governments.[14] He was one of the first political scientists to use structural estimation, e.g. in the study of political careers and coalitions, text analytical methods, and behavioral models in politics.[15] In addition to his work in political science Diermeier has worked on issues of corporation reputations and the interaction between firms and social activists.[16]

References to papers and books
  • Abito, J.M., Besanko, D., and Diermeier, D. (2019). Corporate Social Responsibility, Reputation and Private Politics: The Strategic Interaction between Activists and Firms. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Diermeier, D. (2011). Reputation Rules: Strategies for Building Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  • Bendor, J., Diermeier, D., Siegel, D. A., Ting, M. M. (2011). A Behavioral Theory of Elections. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Diermeier, D., & Feddersen, T.J. (1998). Cohesion in legislatures and the Vote of Confidence procedure. American Political Science Review, 92(3), 611-621.
  • Diermeier, D., & Myerson, R.B. (1999). Bicameralism and its consequences for the internal organization of legislatures. American Economic Review, 89(5), 1182-1196.
  • Baron, D., & Diermeier, D. (2001). Elections, governments, and parliaments in proportional representation systems. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116(3), 933-967
  • Diermeier, D., Eraslan, H., & Merlo, A. (2003). A structural model of government formation. Econometrica, 71(1), 27-70.
  • Diermeier, D., Keane, M., & Merlo, A. (2005). A political economy model of congressional careers. American Economic Review, 95(1), 347-373.
  • Baron, D., & Diermeier, D. (2007). Strategic activism and non-market strategy. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 16(3), 599-634.
  • Beigman-Klebanov, B., Beigman, E., & Diermeier, D. (2008). Lexical cohesion analysis of political speech. Political Analysis, 16(4): 447-463.
  • Diermeier, D., Egorov, G., and Sonin, K. (2017). Political Economy of Redistribution. Econometrica. 85(3):851-70.

Other interests

Diermeier has served as a board member for the University of Chicago Medical Center, Argonne National Laboratory, the Civic Consulting Alliance, CityBase, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the National Opinion Research Center, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the management board of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[17] He also has been an advisor to governments, nonprofit organizations, and leading corporations, including Abbott, Accenture, Allianz, the City of Chicago, the Government of Canada, Ernst & Young, Exelon, the FBI, Hyatt, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Metro Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, State Farm, UnitedHealth Group, and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee.[18]

Education

Diermeier holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Rochester and master's degrees from the University of Munich, University of Southern California, and University of Rochester.[18]

Personal life

Diermeier was born in Berlin, and in 1984–1986 completed German National Civil Service in Munich. He is married and has two children.[1]

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References
  1. Daniel Diermeier. kellogg.northwestern.edu
  2. https://provost.uchicago.edu/directory/daniel-diermeier
  3. "U. of C. Public Policy Dean Daniel Diermeier Named New Provost". DNAinfo Chicago. Archived from the original on November 20, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  4. "Alumni Professor of the Year". Northwestern Kellogg. May 13, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  5. "Harris Public Policy More than Doubles Early Action Applications for Academic Year 2018-2019". Harris Public Policy. December 19, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  6. "$32.5 million in gifts to support Chicago Harris". UChicago News. November 5, 2014. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
  7. "New Funding and Programs for PhD Students". October 8, 2019.
  8. "Statement on Diversity and Inclusion". July 7, 2018.
  9. https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2019/12/04/daniel-diermeier-ninth-chancellor/
  10. "Press Releases – American Academy of Arts & Sciences". Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  11. "Daniel Diermeier : CIFAR". www.cifar.ca. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  12. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Daniel Diermeier". www.gf.org. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  13. "U of C taps public policy school dean as new provost". Crain's Chicago Business. March 31, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  14. "Institutionalism as a Methodology". SAGE Journals. Journal of Theoretical Politics. April 1, 2003.
  15. Barry R. Weingast; Donald Wittman (June 19, 2008). The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy. OUP Oxford. pp. 175–. ISBN 978-0-19-954847-7.
  16. "Strategic Activism and Nonmarket Strategy". Kellogg Insight. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. September 1, 2008.
  17. "Harris Dean Diermeier Will Take Provost Post". www.chicagomaroon.com. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
  18. "Daniel Diermeier - Provost - The University of Chicago". LinkedIn.
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