David Colander is the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics at Middlebury College. He has authored, co authored, or edited over 40 books and over 150 articles on a wide range of economic topics.

He earned his B.A. at Columbia College and his M.Phil and Ph.D. at Columbia University. He also studied at the University of Birmingham in England and at Wilhelmsburg Gymnasium in Germany. Professor Colander has taught at Columbia College, Vassar College, and the University of Miami, as well as having been a consultant to Time-Life Films, a consultant to Congress, a Brookings Policy Fellow, and Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford. In 2001-2002, he was the Kelley Professor of Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University.

He belongs to a variety of professional associations and has served on the board of directors and as vice president and president of both the History of Economic Thought Society and the Eastern Economics Association. He has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Journal of Economics Education, The Journal of Economic Methodology, The Journal of History of Economic Thought, The Journal of Socio-Economics, and The Eastern Economic Journal. He is chair of The AEA Committee on Electronic Publishing and a member of The AEA Committee on Economic Education.

He is married to a pediatrician, Patrice, who has a private practice in Middlebury, Vermont. In their spare time, the Colanders designed and built their oak post-and-beam house on a ridge overlooking the Green Mountains to the east and the Adirondacks to the west. The house is located on the site of a former drive-in movie theater. (They replaced the speaker poles with fruit trees and used the I-beams from the screen as support for the second story of the carriage house and the garage. Dave's office and library are in the former projection room.)