Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist and the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he has taught since 1993. He was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019. In 2024, Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, and Simon Johnson were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their comparative studies in prosperity between states and empires.