Hervé Moulin
Hervé Moulin FRSE FBA (born 1950 in Paris) is a French mathematician who is the Donald J. Robertson Chair of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow. He is known for his research contributions in mathematical economics, in particular in the fields of mechanism design, social choice, game theory and fair division. He has written five books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles.
Hervé Moulin | |
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| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) |
| Nationality | French |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | University of Glasgow |
| Field | Game theory, fair division, social choice, mathematical economics |
| Alma mater | Université Paris-Dauphine École Normale Supérieure |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean-Pierre Aubin |
| Doctoral students | Josue Ortega |
| Influences | Marquis de Condorcet, Jean-Charles de Borda, John von Neumann |
| Contributions | Random assignment, cost sharing, dominance solvable games |
| Awards | Fellow of the Econometric Society, Council Member of the Game Theory Society, President of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Moulin was the George A. Peterkin Professor of Economics at Rice University (from 1999 to 2013):, the James B. Duke Professor of Economics at Duke University (from 1989 to 1999), the University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech (from 1987 to 1989), and Academic Supervisor at Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia (from 2015 to 2022). He is a fellow of the Econometric Society since 1983, and the president of the Game Theory Society for the term 2016 - 2018. He also served as president of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare for the period of 1998 to 1999. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015.
Moulin's research has been supported in part by seven grants from the US National Science Foundation. He collaborates as an adviser with the fair division website Spliddit, created by Ariel Procaccia. On the occasion of his 65th birthday, the Paris School of Economics and the Aix-Marseille University organised a conference in his honor, with Peyton Young, William Thomson, Salvador Barbera, and Moulin himself among the speakers.