Andrew B. Whinston (born June 3, 1936) is an American economist and computer scientist. He is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, a professor of Information Systems, Computer Science, and Economics, and the Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC) in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. In the late 1950s, he was a Sanxsay Fellow at Princeton University. Whinston received his PhD from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1962, and also received the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory that year. He then began working in the economics department of Yale University, where he was a member of the Cowles Foundation. In 1964, he became associate professor of economics at the University of Virginia. By 1966, he was a full professor at Purdue University, where he became the university's inaugural Weiler Distinguished Professor of management, economics, and computer science. He is currently a professor at The University of Texas at Austin where he holds the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration. He is also the director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce in the McCombs School of Business. In 2011, he was rated as the most influential scholar in the Information Systems field by the h-index which measures scholarly influence.