Andreu Mas-Colell#
Membership Number: | 2656 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2009 |
Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
Homepage(s): | http://www.econ.upf.edu/~mcolell/en/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since December 2010 Minister of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia
- July 2009 - August 2010 Secretary General of the European Research Council
- since 1995 Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- April 2000 - December 2003 Minister of Universities, Research and the Information Society of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- April 1999 - April 2000 Commissioner for Universities and Research of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- 1981 - 1995 Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University. In 1988 became the first Louis Berkman Professor of Economics
- 1985 - 1986 Research Fellow at MSRI (Berkeley) and Ford Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley
- 1981 - 1982 Visiting Professor, Facultat de Ciències Econòmiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- 1979 - 1981 Professor, Departments of Economics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
- 1977 - 1979 Associate Professor, Departments of Economics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
- 1975 - 1977 Assistant Professor, Departments of Economics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
- 1976 - 1977 Visiting Scholar, University of Bonn
- 1972 - 1975 Assistant Research Economist, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
- 1966 - 1968 Teaching position (Profesor Ayudante) in the Cátedra de Teoría Económica of the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas of the University of Madrid
Fields of Scholarship
- Abstract general equilibrium theory
- Structure of financial markets to pricing policy for public firms
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
- 1997 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association
- 1985 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2005 Member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans
- 2007 Member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas
- 1978 Fellow of the Econometric Society
- Delivered Walras-Bowley Lecture at the 1997 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Pasadena
- Delivered Fisher-Schultz Lecture at the 1985 Cambridge World Meeting of the Econometric Society
- 1992 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad de Alicante
- 2002 Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse
- 2005 Doctor Honoris Causa, HEC, Paris
- 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
- 2006 Recipient of the Creu de Sant Jordi of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- 1994 Recipient of the Science Prize of the Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca
- 1990 Recipient of the Narcís Monturiol Medal for Scientific Merit given by the Generalitat de Catalunya
- 1988 Recipient of the Rey Juan Carlos Prize in Economics
- 2006 Recipient of the Spanish National Research Prize in Social Sciences Pascual Madoz
- 1985-1986 Guggenheim Fellow
- 1978-1980 Sloan Fellow
- Recipient of N.S.F. Grants in 1978-1982, 1982-1984, 1985-1987, 1991-1993
- Co-recipient of the Israel-US Binational Science Foundation Grants in 1986 and 1993-96
- Recipient of DGICYT Grant (APC96-0017) from Spanish Education Secretary in 1996 and of DGICYT (PB95-0893) from Spanish Education Secretary for 1996-1999 and of DGI Grant (SEJ2006-09993/ECON)
- 2006 Coordinator of Consolider Award, “Consolidating Economics” from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
- May 2008 Recipient of the Cercle d’Economia Prize
- 2008 Member of the Council of the Institut d’Estudis Nord-americans
- November 2008 Recipient of the Reconeixement CECOT al Progrés Empresarial
- June 2009 Co-recipient of the “Prof. Luigi Tartufari” International Prize for Economic Sciences, Academia Nazionale dei Lincei
- July 2009 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2009 Co-recipient of the Prize Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento en Economía, Finanzas y Gestión de Empresas
- July 2011 Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory
- 2017 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal