Jeffrey M. Wooldridge is University Distinguished Professor of Economics and Walter Adams Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Economics at Michigan State University, where he has taught since 1991. He was previously an assistant professor at MIT. He received his bachelor of arts, with majors in computer science and economics, from the University of California, Berkeley, and his doctorate in economics from the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Wooldridge is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Journal of Econometrics, and is a founding fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He is the 2024 winner of the T.W. Schultz Memorial Award. His other awards include the Distinguished Author award from the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Plura Scripset award from Econometric Theory, and the Sir Richard Stone prize from the Journal of Applied Econometrics. He received three teacher-of-the-year awards from the graduate economics association at MIT, and he has taught dozens of short courses internationally on applied econometrics.

Dr. Wooldridge has served on several editorial boards, including as editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Dr. Wooldridge has written chapters for the Handbook of Econometrics and the Handbook of Applied Econometrics. He is the author of the textbooks Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (South-Western, 8e, 2025) and Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data (MIT Press, 2e, 2010).