Professor Eric S. Maskin, 2007 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

Professor Eric S. Maskin's work in economic theory has had a deep influence on many areas of economics, political science, and law. For his work in laying the foundation of mechanism design theory, he was awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (together with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson).

Professor Maskin is Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, which he joined in 2000. He received his AB in 1972 and his PhD in 1976 from Harvard University. He was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1976-77 and taught at MIT from 1977 to 1984. In 1985 he moved to Harvard University, where he was named Louis Berkman Professor of Economics in 1997.

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society, Professor Maskin is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He is also an Honorary Professor at Wuhan and Tsinghua Universities. He is Past President of the Econometric Society.