Jonathan Beauchamp

As of 2024, Jonathan Beauchamp is Assistant Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Associate Investigator at The Centre for Applied Genomics. He completed a PhD in Economics at Harvard University in 2011. His doctoral work employed a multidisciplinary approach, importing insights from genetics, neuroscience, and psychology to study questions of interest to economists, such as human capital formation, the determinants of economic outcomes, and the effect of cognitive biases on economic choices. During his doctorate, Jonathan spent a semester at Princeton University working on a project in the emerging field of neuroeconomics. Jonathan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Economics from Queen’s University, where he specialized in monetary and public economics and wrote his Master’s Essay on Canada’s monetary policy. Following his doctorate, Jonathan joined the Montreal office of the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.