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Paul Romer Net Worth

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Updated on January 14, 2026



Paul Romer net worth is
$12 Million

Paul Romer Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family

Paul Michael Romer (born November 7, 1955) is an American economist, entrepreneur, and activist. He is currently professor of economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University. Prior to that, Romer was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Development, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the Hoover Institution, and a fellow at the Center for Global Development. He is a pioneer of endogenous growth theory. He temporarily left academia, focusing his energy on his 2001 start-up company Aplia which developed online homework problem sets for college students; Aplia was purchased in 2007 by Cengage Learning.Romer earned a B.S. in physics in 1977 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1983, both from the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and the University of Rochester. He was named one of America's 25 most influential people by Time Magazine in 1997. Romer was awarded the Horst Claus Recktenwald Prize in Economics in 2002. He is the son of former Colorado governor Roy Romer. 
Net Worth$12 Million
Date Of Birth1955-11-07
ProfessionSpecial Effects, Miscellaneous Crew
EducationUniversity of Chicago
NicknamesPaul M. Romer, Paul Romer, Romer, Paul M.

Special Effects

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Inspector Gadget1999animatronic designer: Stan Winston Studio
Lake Placid1999animatronic designer: Stan Winston
Congo1995mechanical technician: Stan Winston Studio

Miscellaneous

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Lost World: Jurassic Park1997mechanical department

Known for movies

Special Effects

Lake Placid (1999)
as Special Effects

Special Effects

Congo (1995)
as Special Effects

Special Effects

Inspector Gadget (1999)
as Special Effects

Miscellaneous Crew

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
as Miscellaneous Crew