Vincent Crawford is the Drummond Professor of Political Economy Emeritus; an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College; and Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, University of California, San Diego.

He holds an A.B. Summa cum Laude from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and Academia Europea; and he has held research grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the European Research Council.

He served as co-editor of the American Economic Review and on the boards of Econometrica and several other journals; and is currently an editor of Games and Economic Behaviour. He is known for his work on game-theoretic microeconomic theory, particularly bargaining and arbitration, strategic communication, matching markets, learning, and coordination. His current research is on behavioural and experimental game theory and behavioural economics more generally.