of the founding directors of the Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE), an interdisciplinary research centre involving economists, psychologists, anthropologists and mathematicians based at University College London. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, ELSE pursues basic research on evolutionary and learning approaches to games and society and applies its theoretical findings to practical problems in government and business. While Director of ELSE, Binmore became widely known as the "poker-playing economic theorist", who netted the British government £22 billion when he led the team that designed the third-generation (3G) telecommunications auction in 2000. He went on to design and implement 3G spectrum auctions in Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Israel and Hong Kong. Binmore is Emeritus Professor of Economics at University College London, Visiting Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He has held similar positions at the London School of Economics, Caltech, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the British Academy. He was appointed a CBE in the New Year's Honours List 2001 for contributions to game theory and to designing the UK 3G telecommunications auctions. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002. In 2007 he became an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol and an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Books 1977: Mathematical Analysis: A Straightforward Approach. New York: Cambridge University Press 1980: Foundations of Analysis: Book 1: Logic, Sets and Numbers. Cambridge University Press 1980: Foundations of Analysis: Book 2: Topological Ideas. Cambridge University Press 1986: Economic Organizations As Games (co-ed. Partha Dasgupta). Basil Blackwell 1987: The Economics of Bargaining (co-ed. Partha Dasgupta). Basil Blackwell. Includes many of his early papers on Nash bargaining theory 1990: Essays on the Foundations of Game Theory. Basil Blackwell. Includes "Modelling Rational Players I and II" from Economics and Philosophy 1991: Fun and Games: A Text on Game Theory. D. C. Heath and Company 1994: Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 1: Playing Fair. Cambridge: MIT Press 1998: Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 2: Just Playing. Cambridge: MIT Press 2002: Calculus: Concepts and Methods (with Joan Davies). Cambridge University Press