Roberto Serrano is the Harrison S. Kravis Professor of Economics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He held visiting appointments at IMDEA in Madrid, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, Princeton University, Universidad Carlos III and CEMFI in Madrid. His fields of interest are microeconomic theory and game theory. He has made contributions to several areas, including implementation theory and mechanism design, bargaining theory, the economics of risk, uncertainty and information, and the theory of general equilibrium.

Prof. Serrano received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1992. He also holds an M.A. in economics from Harvard and a B.A. in economics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He has written two books, co-authored with Allan Feldman, and published seventy articles in leading economics, game theory, operations research, and applied mathematics journals. He has also supervised a dozen doctoral dissertations. He is currently the Managing Editor or an Associate Editor of several international journals, and served as referee for many well-known journals, publishers and institutions.

Prof. Serrano was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2013. In 1999, he was a charter member of the Game Theory Society, and he was an elected member of its Council between 2005 and 2011. He has received several prizes for his research, including the Fundación Banco Herrero Prize, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Merit Fellowship, as wells as two prizes from Spain's National Organization for the Blind in 1993. His research has been supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Fundación Ramón Areces, the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, and the Spanish Dirección General de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.