He was the longest serving Secretary-General of the Royal Economic Society (1992–2008) since John Maynard Keynes.
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It was launched in 1990 by Francesco Giavazzi, Mario Monti, and Richard Portes as a joint project of Bocconi University, the CEPR and the NBER and named in memory of Innocenzo Gasparini, former rector of Bocconi University.
Current members of the committee besides Akerlof and Zimmermann are: Marco Caliendo (IZA Director of Research), Richard Portes (Professor of Economics at the London Business School and President of the CEPR), and Jan Svejnar (Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan).