He holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and is a researcher at the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), UK. He is currently a consultant at the Centre for Prospective Studies and International Information (CEPII), Paris, and a Professor at the University Paris Dauphine-PSL. Previously, he was Deputy Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) at the OECD. He has written several academic articles and OECD publications on trade and competition, productivity and growth, environmental issues, structural policy complementarities and regional policies.
He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Lisbon. He previously worked at the Portuguese Public Finance Council as a senior economist. He was also an economist at the IMF, the OECD and the ECB. In the academic field, he has taught at Sciences Po, Paris, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge, UK, and at Nova University Lisbon. His main areas of research include fiscal policy, forecasting performance, macro-financial linkages and energy economics. He has written numerous studies, with more than 100 academic papers published in prestigious scientific journals.
