Mark Armstrong | |
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Born | December 1964 (age 60) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of Oxford |
Doctoral advisor | James Mirrlees |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Economics |
Sub-discipline | Industrial organisation |
Institutions | University of Cambridge University of Southampton University of Oxford University College London |
Christopher Mark Armstrong (born December 1964) FBA is a British economist,professor of economics at University College London and University Academic Fellow of All Souls College,Oxford. His research focuses on industrial organisation and the functioning of markets.
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]
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]