John Kennes is an Associate Professor at Aarhus Universitet. He is canadian citizen who has lived and worked in Denmark since 2001. He researches the theory of directed search where agents choose actions to overcome problems of coordination and exchange. The agenda is to figure out what actions are important and to theorize why. This research considers a number of basic problems related to the operation of households, such as the matching of workers to firms, men to women, schools to children, and borrowers to lenders.