Bruno S. Frey is a citizen of Switzerland (born in Basel).
He received four honorary doctorates (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, University of Goeteborg, Sweden, Free University of Brussels, Belgium and Paul-Cézanne University, Aix-Marseille III, France).
He was elected Distinguished CESifo Fellow of 2005 and Distinguished Fellow of the Association for Cultural Economics International, 2010.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
He was a member of the ten experts composing the Copenhagen Consensus.