The Academia Europaea was established in 1988 and is the Pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences. Membership invitations are made only after peer group nomination, scrutiny and confirmation as to the scholarship and eminence of the individual in their chosen field. Current membership stands at over 5500 and includes 88 Nobel laureates.
The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages. The aim of the Academy is to promote European research, advise governments and international organisations in scientific matters, and further interdisciplinary and international research.
Prof Rasul is also an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Econometric Society, as well as President of the Royal Economic Society and European Economic Association.
In 2020 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for Services to Social Sciences in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Prof Rasul’s Academia Europaea page