Eric Eleterius Coralie van Damme (born 27 July 1956[1]) is a Dutch economist and Professor of Economics at the Tilburg University, known for his contributions to game theory.

Born in Terneuzen, Van Damme received his MA in Mathematics at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1979, where he was mentored by Stef Tijs, the godfather of game theory in the Netherlands.

[2] He went on to earn his PhD in Technical Sciences in 1983 at the Eindhoven University of Technology with a thesis entitled "Refinements of the Nash Equilibrium Concept" under supervision of Jaap Wessels and Reinhard Selten.

In between he was Visiting Professor at European Universities in Bielefeld, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Vienna, Lisbon; and in the USA at the Kellogg School of Management.

Van Damme has been elected fellow of the Econometric Society in 1993, and appointed member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.