James Campbell serves as a Lecturer in the Economics Department at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he has held since May 2020. In this role, he teaches introductory economics, intermediate microeconomics, and leads the department's pedagogy workshop for first-time graduate student instructors and undergraduate student instructors. Campbell earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University in 2010, an A.M. in Economics from the same institution in 2006, and a B.A. (Honours) in Economics and Management with first-class honours from Oxford University in 2005.

His career includes an Assistant Professorship at Providence College from August 2016 (currently on leave), Visiting Assistant Professorship at Brown University from January 2015 to May 2016, and Assistant Professorship at the University of Toronto from August 2010 to June 2015, cross-appointed to the University of Toronto Scarborough and the Rotman School of Management. He also worked as Academic Correspondent for Hippo Reads from March to December 2015. Campbell's research specializations include network economics, asymmetric information, quality signaling, privacy regulation, market structure, information ownership, community enforcement, strategic surprise, investment in ideas, belief formation, and decision weights. Notable publications are 'Privacy Regulation and Market Structure' (Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2015; with Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker), 'Localized Price Promotions as a Quality Signal in a Publicly Observable Network' (Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 2015), 'Targeting Informative Messages to a Network of Consumers' (Review of Network Economics, 2012), 'Ownership and Pricing of Information: A Model and Application to Open Access' (Information Economics and Policy, 2015), and 'Availability of Better Data on Communication Networks Can Undermine Community Enforcement' (Review of Economic Analysis, 2018). He received the University of Florida Public Utility Research Center Prize for the best paper in regulatory economics at the 2011 International Industrial Organization Conference.

Professional Email: jamescampbell@berkeley.edu