Economy

Associate Professor in the Department of Innovation Management and Strategy, School of Economics and Management, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research focuses on innovation management and business strategy, paying particular attention to how companies manage their knowledge acquisition activities and cooperate with their partners.

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics (with distinction) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a Master's degree and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge. He is currently an Associate Professor (on leave) at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG) and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is a member of the Unit for Studies on Complexity in Economics (UECE) and the Research in Economics and Mathematics (REM) consortium, both at ISEG. Previously, he was a senior economist in the research department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). His research work has been published in leading academic journals and cited in public presentations by prominent policymakers, as well as in renowned newspapers and magazines such as The Economist, the Dow Jones News, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Valor Econômico and the Expresso. With Maurice Obstfeld, he co-edited the book "Meeting Globalisation's Challenges", published by Princeton University Press in 2019.

He holds a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, a postgraduate degree in Enterprise Data Science & Analytics from Nova University Lisbon (NovaIMS) and is currently finishing his PhD in Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. He is a researcher at Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS) and a guest lecturer at Instituto Superior Técnico. Previously, he worked in investment banking and co-founded the artificial intelligence and data analysis company Alfredo Real Estate Analytics.

Last updated: October 2021

Hélder Costa has a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree and a PhD in Economics from the University of Minho (UMinho) and a research grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Between 2016 and 2017, he worked as an advisor to the Rectorate of UMinho.
His research interests focus on labour economics, and he was the author of an article published in the Regional Studies journal and co-author of a book on the Portuguese economy.

Joana Vasconcelos is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Lisbon School of Law, where she graduated and got her Master’s degree and PhD. She teaches Labour Law and Procedural Labour Law on the Bachelor's and Master's courses at the same institution. She was a consultant for the Legal Centre of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and was a member of the team that prepared the Preliminary Draft of the Labour Code. She works regularly with other national law faculties and institutions on postgraduate and advanced training courses in labour law and labour procedural law, and regularly participates in colloquiums, congresses and conferences in the same areas. Joana Vasconcelos works as a legal consultant with Miranda & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados and has written several monographs and numerous published articles on employment law and procedural law.

He got his PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute in 2007. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Minho (U Minho) and Director of the PhD programme in Economics at the same institution. He is also a researcher at NIPE (UMinho), CIPES (UAveiro and UPorto) and the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA), Germany, and assists the Bank of Portugal on a permanent basis. His research focuses mainly on Labour and Education Economics and Applied Econometrics. He has written several academic papers, books and book chapters, and has been published in prestigious journals such as Econometrica, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Regional Studies and Studies in Higher Education. His work has been cited, among others, in prestigious specialist journals such as Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Industrial and Labour Relations Review and Labour Economics. He maintains research collaborations in several countries, leading and integrating research teams that develop funded projects. He has authored policy-oriented reports on minimum wages, education and employment applicable to the Portuguese labour market. He also has extensive experience in consultancy for both private and public institutions.

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.

Last updated: October 2021