Personal Coordinates

name  Andreu Mas-Colllel

Present positionS  Full professor of Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, General  Secretary European Research Council

FORMER POSITIONS Minister for Universities and Research and Information society, Catalan Autonomous Government

subjects  landscape, portrait, travel

Professor Mas-Colell is a  worldwide renown researcher in Economics. He has also been strongly involved in policy making in the area of innovation, research and information society.  As the Minister for Research, Universities and Information Society in the Catalan Government, he led an in depth reform of the Catalan innovation system with a strong commitment with excellence and quality. Under his leadership several new formulas for the promotion and retention of new scientific and technological talent were introduced and a new system of research and technology centers was implemented. One of this initiatives was the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics   where he is the President. He also is the Secretary for the European Research Council, an organization that is endowed with the mission to define and boost the European innovation system.