Research Areas:
Mechanism Design, Theory of Income Inequality, Intellectual Property Rights, Political Economy

Prof. Eric Maskin received his PhD in applied mathematics in 1976 from Harvard University. He had taught at MIT (1977-1984), Harvard University (1985-2000) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2000-2011). He rejoined the Harvard faculty as Professor of Economics in 2012.

He was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the European Economic Association, Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He is also an Honorary Professor at Wuhan and Tsinghua Universities.

Prof. Maskin's work in economic theory has had a deep influence on many areas of economics, political science, and law. For his contributions in laying the foundation of mechanism design theory, he was awarded the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His current research focus is on mechanism design, repeated games, income inequality, and the theory of voting.