Biographical sketch

Roberto Serrano

(2020)

Roberto Serrano is the Harrison S. Kravis University Professor of Economics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He has held visiting appointments at IMDEA Social Sciences in Madrid, the Center for Rationality of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Universidad Carlos III and CEMFI in Madrid, and Harvard University. His fields of interest are microeconomic theory and game theory. He has made contributions to several areas, including implementation theory and mechanism design, bargaining theory, the economics of risk, uncertainty and information, and the theory of general economic equilibrium.

Prof. Serrano received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1992. He also holds an M.A. in economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in economics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

He has written two books, co-authored with Allan Feldman, and he has published dozens of articles in leading economics, game theory, operations research, and applied mathematics journals. He has been the Managing Editor or an Associate Editor of several international journals. He has also served as referee for many well-known journals, publishers and institutions.

Prof. Serrano has delivered numerous invited lectures at top economic and game theory seminars and international conferences. He also served as the Chair for the 2004 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Game Theory in 2009, and Co-chair of the Program Committee for the Madrid Summer Workshop on Economic Theory between 2008 and 2012.

Prof. Serrano was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2013 and a Fellow of the Game Theory Society in 2017. In 1999, he was a charter member of the Game Theory Society, and he was an elected member of its Council between 2005 and 2011. He has received a number of awards and distinctions for his research, including the Doctor Honoris Causa from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2019 and the Fundación Banco Herrero Prize in 2004, awarded annually to a Spanish economist under 40. He has also received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship in 1998, the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Merit Fellowship in 1991, and prizes from Spain's National Organization for the Blind in 1993 and 1988. His research has been supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Fundación Ramón Areces, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, and the Spanish Dirección General de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.

He has taught at both graduate and undergraduate levels at Brown University, Harvard University, Universidad Carlos III, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Universidad Complutense. He has also supervised over a dozen doctoral dissertations.

Prof. Serrano's teaching has received several prizes and mentions. He received the William McLaughlin Award for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences at Brown University in 1999, the Omicron-Delta-Epsilon Economics Professor of the Year Award in 2006, and in 2012 was included in the book "The Best 300 Professors," published by the Princeton Review.

Prof. Serrano was the Director of Graduate Studies for economics at Brown University between 2006 and 2010, and the Economics Department Chair between 2010 and 2014. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife Amy. They have two amazing kids, Sofia (a computer scientist, who as she says knows how turn computers on and off) and Lolo (a talented historian and jazz musician, who plays trumpet, piano, and clarinet). He enjoys talking to people, and likes classical music, Spanish and European soccer, funny jokes, traveling, and good wine, better beer and the best coffee.