predecessor birth_place nationality successor|birth_name office profession primeminister birth_date term_start image article_title name
antoni and universities -rrb- castells -lrb- economy -rrb- josep huguet -lrb- innovation barcelona , catalonia , spain spanish andreu mas-colell minister of economy and knowledge of catalonia economist professor artur mas 29 june 1944 29 december 2010 andreu mas i colell.jpg andreu mas-colell
 andreu mas-colell
andreu mas-colell

andreu mas-colell -lrb- , born 29 june 1944 -rrb- is a spanish catalan economist , an expert in microeconomics and one of the world 's leading mathematical economists .
he is the founder of the barcelona graduate school of economics and a professor in the department of economics at pompeu fabra university in barcelona , catalonia , spain .
he has also served several times in the cabinet of the catalonian government .
summarizing his and others ' research in general equilibrium theory , his monograph gave a thorough exposition of research using differential topology .
his textbook on microeconomics , co-authored with michael whinston , is the most used graduate microeconomics textbook in the world .
