Pol Antràs

Pol Antràs Puchal (born June 30, 1975) is a Catalan economist who has served as the Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics at Harvard University since 2015.

Born in Barcelona in 1975, he received BA (1998) and MSc (1999) degrees in economics from Pompeu Fabra University, and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. He has served since then on the faculty of Harvard University, and was appointed the Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics in 2015.

Antràs has been a research associate at the NBER since 2008, and directed its International Trade and Organization Working Group from 2007 to 2009. He is also a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and is a member of CESifo’s Research Network. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007 and the Fundación Banco Herrero Prize in 2009. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2015, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024. He edited the ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'' from 2015 to 2020, and previously served on the editorial board of several other academic journals, including the ''American Economic Review'', ''The Review of Economic Studies'', the ''Journal of International Economics'', and the ''Annual Review of Economics.'' Since 2022, he has served as a member of the Scientific Council of the Barcelona School of Economics. Provided by Wikipedia