Dennis J. Aigner is Professor Emeritus of Management and Economics and former Dean of The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). From 2000 to 2005 he held the position of Dean and Bren Fellow in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He came to UC Irvine in August of 1988. Before that, he was Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. He received his BS and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and holds an MA in Applied Statistics from that same institution. He was on the teaching faculties at the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin-Madison prior to his appointment at USC in 1976.

Professor Aigner's publication record includes several books and numerous articles on statistical and
econometric methodology. He was founding editor of the Journal of Econometrics, and co-edited the Journal for 20 years. His research interests include corporate environmental management, international economics, and trade & environment.

Aigner has served on many boards of directors of business and arts organizations in Orange County. For many years he directed the Orange County Executive Survey on behalf of GSM, a longitudinal study of business performance and attitudes.  Since 2003, Aigner has been a member of the National Advisory Council to the USEPA Adminstrator on environmental issues relating to NAFTA.