Mark Armstrong (economist)

Christopher Mark Armstrong (born December 1964) is a British economist, professor of economics at University College London and University Academic Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His research focuses on industrial organisation and the functioning of markets.

Education
Armstrong graduated with a BA in mathematics from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1987. He was a postgraduate at St John's College, Oxford, from 1987 to 1992, where he received an M.Phil. and D.Phil. in economics.

Career
Armstrong's first academic position was as a lecturer in microeconomics at Cambridge University and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He left for a professorship in economic policy at the University of Southampton in 1994 and was appointed fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, in 1997. He then became a professor of economics at University College London in 2003 and left for his current position at the University of Oxford in 2011.

The British Academy and the Econometric Society elected him to fellowship in 2007 and 2008, respectively. He is also a fellow of the European Economic Association.

He was managing editor and chair of the Review of Economic Studies and co-editor of the RAND Journal of Economics.