Photo Gallery: 2025 Sage-CASBS Award Lecture featuring Daron Acemoglu

View a photo gallery from the 2025 Sage-CASBS Award Lecture featuring Daron Acemoglu, hosted by CASBS on April 24, 2025. View video of the event and read our event coverage. Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Photos by Katelyn Tucker for CASBS

Close-up of Sage-CASBS Award plaque

Event brochures spread on a table

Daron Acemoglu mingling before the start of the event

Economists Stephanie Wang (CASBS fellow 2024-25) & Matthew Jackson (CASBS fellow 2005-06) chatting before the event

Daron Acemoglu chatting with fellow Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth before the event

CASBS director Sarah Soule begins the event with intro remarks

Sarah Soule speaking in front of a capacity crowd

Former CASBS fellows Margaret O'Mara and Aaron Shaw, Sage-CASBS selection committee members, sitting among the crowd

Daron Acemoglu delivering the award lecture

Daron Acemoglu speaking at the lectern

Daron Acemoglue speaking at the lectern

Daron Acemoglu speaking in front of the audience

Daron Acemoglu speaking & looking into the camera

A view of the cavernous venue while Daron Acemoglu is speaking

Daron Acemoglu speaking at the lectern

Daron Acemoglu speaking

Daron Acemoglu speaking and looking into the camera

Daron Acemoglu speaking in front of the audience

Daron Acemoglu speaking, as seen through an opening in a sliding glass door

Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth, in the audience listening and watching

Economist & former CASBS fellow Matthew Jackson in the audience, watching & listening

Daron Acemoglu speaking at the lectern

Daron Acemoglu speaking in front of a full event venue

Sage representative Doug McCune speaking at the lectern as Daron Acemoglu stands next to him

Doug McCune & Daron Acemoglu shaking hands after McCune presented Acemoglu with the award plaque

Sarah Soule offering concluding remarks as Daron Acemoglu stands next to her

Daron Acemoglu chatting with attendees after the event's conclusion

Daron Acemoglu & Sage representative Doug McCune posing in front of a Sage retractable banner

Daron Acemoglu posing with fellow Nobel Prize winners Paul Milgrom and Alvin Roth outside after the event's conclusion

CASBS director Sarah Soule & Daron Acemoglu posing with the award plaque before the event

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