
Professor Emeritus Martin Osborne is the winner of the Sonnenschein Service Prize for his outstanding service to the economics profession. The award was established in 2024 and is bestowed by the Econometric Society, an international society dedicated to the advancement of economic theory in relation to statistics and mathematics.
“Martin Osborne has been a tireless advocate for economic theory and the economics profession more generally, has been generous in developing and disseminating research tools, and has always been eager to advise and assist anyone who asks,” the jury said in its announcement. “He was instrumental in creating the journal Theoretical Economics, subsequently adopted as one of the Econometric Society’s three journals.”
Winners of the award, which is named for the American economist and university administrator Hugo Sonnenschein, are selected by a committee chaired by the society’s president that consists of the chairs of its six regional standing committees.”