At the moment of WINIR’s official launch in October 2013, the following leading pioneers of institutional research from multiple disciplines had endorsed the initiative by agreeing to serve as Honorary Presidents.
Honorary Presidents
* Nobel Laureate † Since deceased
| Daron Acemoglu MIT (USA), economics |
Howard E. Aldrich UNC (USA), sociology |
Masahiko Aoki † Stanford (USA), economics |
Julia Black LSE (UK), law |
Peter J. Boettke GMU (USA), economics |
| Paul J. DiMaggio NUY (USA), sociology |
Peter B. Evans Berkeley (USA), sociology |
Neil Fligstein Berkeley (USA), sociology |
Margaret P. Gilbert UC Irvine (USA), philosophy |
Avner Greif Stanford (USA), economics |
| Peter A. Hall Harvard (USA), political science |
Henry B. Hansmann Yale (USA), law |
János Kornai † Corvinus (Hungary), economics |
Timur Kuran Duke (USA), economics |
Richard N. Langlois Connecticut (USA), economics |
| Richard Lipsey SFU (Canada), economics |
Claude Ménard Sorbonne (France), economics |
Richard R. Nelson Columbia (USA), economics |
Douglass C. North *† WUSTL (USA), economics |
John V. C. Nye GMU (USA), political science |
| Johan P. Olsen Oslo (Norway), political science |
Walter W. Powell Stanford (USA), sociology |
James Robinson Chicago (USA), political science |
Dani Rodrik Harvard (USA), economics |
Malcolm Rutherford Victoria (Canada), economics |
| W. Richard Scott Stanford (USA), sociology |
John R. Searle Berkeley (USA), philosophy |
Mary M. Shirley Coase Institute (USA), economics |
David Soskice LSE (UK), political science |
Wolfgang Streeck MPIfG (Germany), sociology |
| Robert Sugden UEA (UK), economics |
Kathleen Thelen MIT (USA), political science |
Viktor Vanberg Freiburg (Germany), economics |
Ronald H. Coase*† had also agreed to be an Honorary President of WINIR before he passed away in September 2013.