Mark Armstrong (economist)

Christopher Mark Armstrong (born December 1964) FBA is a British economist, professor of economics at the University of Oxford and University Academic Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His research focuses on industrial organisation and the functioning of markets.

Mark Armstrong
BornDecember 1964 (age 56)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisorJames Mirrlees
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Sub-disciplineIndustrial organisation
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of Southampton
University of Oxford
University College London

Education

Armstrong graduated with a BA in mathematics from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1987. He was a postgraduate at St John's College, Oxford from 1987 to 1992, where he received an M.Phil. and D.Phil. in economics.[1]

Career

Armstrong's first academic position was as a lecturer in microeconomics at Cambridge University and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He left for a professorship in economic policy at the University of Southampton in 1994 and was appointed fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford in 1997. He then became a professor of economics at University College London in 2003 and left for his current position at the University of Oxford in 2011.[1][2]

The British Academy and the Econometric Society elected him to fellowship in 2007 and 2008, respectively.[2][3] He is also a fellow of the European Economic Association.[4]

He was managing editor and chair of the Review of Economic Studies and co-editor of the Rand Journal of Economics.[5][6]

References
  1. Armstrong, Mark. "CVshort.pdf". Google Docs (linked from official website). Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  2. "Professor Mark Armstrong FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  3. "Fellows | The Econometric Society". www.econometricsociety.org. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  4. "Fellows | EEA". www.eeassoc.org. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  5. "History | The Review of Economic Studies". www.restud.com. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  6. "The RAND Journal of Economics". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
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