Andreu Mas-Colell is the founder of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and a BSE Emeritus Research Professor. He is Professor Emeritus at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), where he was a member of the Department of Economics and Business, one of BSE’s academic units. He was the first Chair of the BSE Board of Trustees (2006-2010).

Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University (1981-96) and the University of California, Berkeley (1972-80).

Professor Mas-Colell’s main research contributions have been in the areas of mathematical economics and general equilibrium theory. He has written over 120 research papers on subjects ranging from abstract general equilibrium theory and the structure of financial markets to pricing policy for public firms. 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).

Professor Mas-Colell has served as chief editor of the Journal of Mathematical Economics and of Econometrica.

He has been President of the Econometric Society and the European Economic Association, a member of the executive committee of the International Economic Association.

He is President of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST). He has also been Minister of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia and Secretary General of the European Research Council, among many other leadership roles.

Andreu Mas-Colell holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota in the United States. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Alicante in Spain, the University of Toulouse and HEC Paris in France, the National University of the South in Argentina, and the University of Chicago in the United States.