Founder 

Andreu Mas-Colell (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1974) is the founder of the Barcelona GSE and served as its Chairman until December 2010, when he became Minister for Economy of the Government of Catalonia. He is Professor of Economics (on leave) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and he was previously Professor of Economics at Harvard University (1981-96) and of economics and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley (1972-80).

 

He has been a Sloan Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow and also holds Honoris Causa Doctorates from the Universities of Alacant, Toulouse and HEC (Paris), in addition to being awarded the Premio Rey Juan Carlos in economics and the Pascual Madoz Spanish Research Prize.

 

Andreu Mas-Colell served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Mathematical Economics and of Econometrica (1985-92), and is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society, which he presided over in 1993. He is a Foreign Associate to the US National Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association. From 1999 to 2005 he was a member of the executive committee of the International Economic Association. In 2006 he was president of the European Economic Association. He has also been minister for Universities and Research of the Government of Catalonia (2000-2003) and president of the Advisory Scientific Committee of Telefónica Research and Development.

 

He has written over 100 research papers and 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, and of the graduate textbook Microeconomic Theory (Oxford University Press, 1995).

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