Alan Gerber is Sterling Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and Professor of Economics and of and Statistics and Data Science at Yale University. His current research focuses on the political economy of evidence production and use in public policy and organizations. He has published extensively on the application of experimental methods to the study of campaign communications, and he has designed and performed experimental evaluations of many political communications programs, both partisan and non-partisan in nature. His book on field experiments, co-authored with Donald Green, is a widely used resource for researchers seeking to apply field experimental methods to problems in the social sciences.

He received his BA from Yale University and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.