The Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) is an institution for research and graduate education in economics, finance, data science, and the social sciences located in Barcelona, Spain. The school's academic offer includes Master's degrees as well as summer schools, professional courses, and in-company training. BSE research has been ranked among the top Economics Departments in the world. The school is accredited by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU). History Established as the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE), the institution was legally recognized by the Government of Catalonia in October 2006 as a foundation dedicated to higher education. The School was created with the objective to foster scientific cooperation between four existing academic and research units in Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra— Department of Economics and Business Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona — Unit of Economic Analysis Institute for Economic Analysis Centre for Research in International Economics The School's board of trustees includes both private and public institutions. The school changed its name to Barcelona School of Economics in 2021. Scientific Council The BSE Scientific Council works with faculty and administrators to ensure the quality of teaching, research, and admissions procedures. The council is made up of leading academics, including several Nobel Laureates in Economics. The first chair of the Scientific Council was Hugo Sonnenschein (1940-2021), President Emeritus of the University of Chicago, who held the position from 2008 until 2021. Members of the Barcelona School of Economics Scientific Council Daron Acemoglu, MIT Aloisio Araujo, IMPA and Fundação Getulio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro) Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University Chong-En Bai, Tsinghua University Richard Blundell, University College London Janet Currie, Princeton University Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge Mathias Dewatripont Université Libre de Bruxelles Darrell Duffie, Stanford Graduate School of Business Raquel Fernández, New York University Oliver Hart, Harvard University, Nobel Laureate James J. Heckman, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate Bengt Holmström, MIT, Nobel Laureate Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University Timothy Kehoe, University of Minnesota Anne Krueger, The Johns Hopkins University Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University Robert Lucas, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University Eric S. Maskin, Harvard University Nobel Laureate Preston McAfee, former Chief Economist of Microsoft Roger Myerson, University of Chicago Nobel Laureate Juan Pablo Nicolini, United States Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Edward C. Prescott, University of Arizona, Nobel Laureate Hélène Rey, London Business School John Roberts, Stanford University Alvin Roth, Stanford University, Nobel Laureate Ariel