Andrea Prat

Andrea Prat (born 1967) is an Italian economist. He is the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business and professor of economics at Columbia University. He first studied economics at the University of Turin and then obtained his PhD in 1997 at Stanford University under the supervision of Kenneth Arrow. Prat has also taught at the London School of Economics and at Tilburg University.^[2]

Andrea Prat
Prat in 2009
Born	(1967-11-01) 1 November 1967 (age 57) Italy
Academic background
Alma mater	Stanford University (Ph.D., 1997) University of Turin (Laurea, 1992)
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth Arrow[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Microeconomics Organizational Economics Political economy
Institutions	Columbia University
Awards	Fellow, British Academy (elected 2011); Fellow, Econometric Society (elected 2013), Honorary Doctorate, University of St Gallen (2020), Corresponding Fellow, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (elected 2023).
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

He served as chairman and managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies and as an associate editor of Theoretical Economics. He is the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. Prat is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society.^[3][4] He is a corresponding fellow of the Accademia delle Scienze.^[5] In 2020, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen.^[6]