Erik Snowberg is the Marriner S. Eccles Presidential Chair of the Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah.

His research has two foci: using social science theory to design better experiments involving people, with applications in medicine and economic development – and combining behavioral economics with political economy to better understand the roots of partisan politics and its effects on policy. Dr. Snowberg has earned a National Bureau of Economic Research Faculty Research Fellowship, a Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Dissertation Fellowship, and an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

He received his PhD in business administration from Stanford University. He holds undergraduate degrees in math and physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining UBC, Erik was a professor of economics and political science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).