ANDREU MAS-COLELL

Andreu Mas-Colell is currently Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, affiliated professor at the Barcelona School of Economics and Chairman of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology. Formerly he was Professor of Economics at Harvard University (1981-96) and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley (1972-80). He has written over one hundred research papers on theoretical topics centered in general equilibrium theory and game theory He is the author of The Theory of General Economic Equilibrium: A Differentiable Approach (Cambridge University Press, 1985) and co-author with M. Whinston and J. Green, of the graduate textbook Microeconomic Theory (Oxford University Press, 1994). 

 He has served as main Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Economics (1985-88), and of Econometrica (1988-92). He is also a Fellow of SAET and was President of the Econometric Society in 1993. In 1997 he was elected International Member to the US National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association. He has been a Sloan Fellow (1978-1980) and Guggenheim Fellow (1985-1986). From 1999 to 2005 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Association. In the year 2006 he served as President of the European Economic Association. In 2021 he was elected president of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. 

 He holds Honoris Causa Doctorates from the universities of Alacant, Toulouse, HEC (Paris), Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina) and Chicago. He has received the Rey Juan Carlos Prize in Economics (1988), the National Research Prize of Spain (2006), and the Premio Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento en Economía, Finanzas y Gestión de Empresas –shared with Hugo Sonnenschein- (2009). 

 He has been Minister for Universities and Research of the Government of Catalonia (2000-2003), President of the Advisory Scientific Committee of Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (2005-2008), General Secretary of the European Research Council (2009-2010) and Minister of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia (2010-2015).