Patrick Hummel

About

Patrick Hummel is an economist who joined Microsoft in 2019 to work on Microsoft’s cloud business.  During the seven years before joining Microsoft (2012-2019), Patrick worked at Google, first as a research scientist in Google’s Strategic Technologies division, and later as an economist in Google’s Economics Team.  Patrick had come to Google after a two-year stint in Yahoo! Research, where he was a research scientist in their Microeconomics and Social Systems group.

Patrick studied at Caltech from 2002-2006.  There he graduated first in his undergraduate class with a B.S. in applied and computational mathematics, a B.S. in economics, and an M.S. in chemistry.  After graduating from Caltech, Patrick attended Stanford Graduate School of Business on an NSF graduate research fellowship, earning a Ph.D. in economics in 2010.

Patrick has pursued a number of other interests over the course of his life.  He is a World Chess Federation Master and a former US National High School Chess Champion.  While in high school, he also qualified for the US Chemistry and US Physics Olympiad Teams.