Economy

Consultant at Augusto Mateus & Associados. Consultant at Augusto Mateus & Associados.

Last updated: March 2022

Former Minister of the Economy and university professor for 42 years at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG), Augusto Mateus has studied the country's economic reality and territorial inequalities.
Currently Chairman and Non-Executive Chairman of a consultancy firm he founded in 1998, he has conducted numerous studies on the factors of national growth and development.
As a researcher, he has coordinated and prepared economic analyses of city policy and business strategy for local authorities and public and private entities. The studies carried out by his office have also analysed the potential of what is known as the creative economy and creative culture for the country’s competitiveness, and have created models for evaluating and measuring this impact on regional development.
He held political office twice during the António Guterres governments, first as Secretary of State for Industry (1995-1996) and then as Minister for the Economy (1996-1997).
He has a postgraduate degree in International Economics and Human Resources Economics from the University of Paris X. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Instituto Superior de Ciências Económicas e Financeiras (ISCEF), at Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. He was born in Lisbon in 1950.

Visiting Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary, which he has been affiliated to since 2011. He got his PhD in Economics from the University of the Algarve in 2012. His areas of interest include Microeconomics, Energy and Environmental Economics and Econometrics. His publications include more than 15 scientific articles in these areas.

Last updated: March 2022

Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary, where he has taught since 1995. He holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Economics from Stanford University (1987). He works on public economics, particularly infrastructure, environmental policy and social security reform. He has published more than 90 articles in scientific journals, as well as eight books on topics related to the Portuguese economy.