Robin Hogarth, a retired professor of the UPF Department of Economics and Business, linked to the University since 2000, a leading authority in the field of decision-making research and the psychology of judgement, died on 21 April at the age of 81 years. Today, 24 April, his farewell ceremony was held at the Les Corts funeral parlour in Barcelona.

Professor Hogarth served as an ICREA research professor in the Department between 2000 and 2012. Before retiring, he remained active as an emeritus lecturer, devoting himself to his own research projects. Between 2010 and 2018 he directed the UPF PhD Programme in Economics, Finance and Management, which he carried out with total dedication, guiding a great many students. He was also BSE Affiliated Professor.

Prior to coming to UPF, he worked for some 20 years at the University of Chicago (where he received his doctorate in 1972). There, where he was a Wallace W. Booth professor of Behavioural Sciences, he served as vice-dean and director of the Center for Decision Research, and helped establish its Executive MBA programme in Europe.

His research mainly focused on the psychology of judgement and decision-making, areas in which he published several books, the last of which, together with Emre Soyer, is entitled The Myth of Experience: Why We Learn the Wrong Lessons and Ways to Correct Them (New YorK. PublicAffairs, 2020).

Former president of both the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the European Association for Decision Making, in 2023 the latter awarded him the EADM Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions in the field of decision-making. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Lausanne.