Former faculty member Professor Sanjeev Goyal is elected as Fellow of the Econometric Society. The Econometric Society, which was founded in 1930, is the most prestigious Society in the Economics discipline. Each year the Society elects new fellows, and in 2018 the honour is to Sanjeev Goyal.
Sanjeev Goyal, now at the University of Cambridge, was Assistant Professor (1990-1997) and Full Professor of Mathematical Economics (1998-2001) at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus School of Economics. In those years he published his groundbreaking work in, amongst others, International Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies and Econometrica.
Dean Philip Hans Franses: ‘This is really good news for Sanjeev, and we are very proud of him. We are impressed by his achievements!’
Professor Goyal: ‘I am very happy with this honour. Some of my best work was done while I was at the Econometric Institute and I formed close research collaborations that have lasted until now. It is with great pleasure that I look back at that period.’
Sanjeev Goyal is Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He is a pioneer and leading international scholar in the economic study of networks. In 2007, Princeton University Press published his book Connections: an introduction to the economics of networks. A Chinese translation appeared in 2010. Goyal is a Fellow of the British Academy and was the founding Director of the Cambridge-INET Institute.