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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 was born in Lisbon in 1962. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (1985) from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Universidade Técnica de Lisboa – where he won the award for best student of the year in his field – and in Strategic Management in the Context of Innovation (1988) from University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE). He obtained a Master's degree in Heat Transfer and Conversion (1998), and a PhD (1993) and Aggregation (2004) in Mechanical Engineering from IST. President of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and National Director of the MIT-Portugal programme – the largest international partnership in Science and Technology in Portugal in the field of Engineering Systems – and also the main focus area for Sustainable Energy Systems. He is a Full Professor at IST, co-founder of the Centre for Studies in Innovation, Technology and Development Policies (IN+), and was the coordinator of the Sustainable Technologies and Environmental Systems area in the Laboratory of Robotics and Systems in Engineering and Science (LARSyS) at the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR). He has written more than 70 articles published in journals, book chapters and more than 80 papers presented at conferences and lectures in different fields. He has co-organised more than a dozen international conferences and led more than 30 scientific projects in the areas of Energy Efficiency and Industrial Ecology.

Last updated: October 2021

He holds a PhD in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE). He is a Full Professor at the University of Coimbra and a member of the Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER). He has studied the phenomenon of economic growth in theoretical and empirical terms and has published more than 70 papers in several international journals, including Research Policy, the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, the Oxford Economic Papers, and Ecological Economics. He has held a number of university management positions, having been a member of the Senate and Scientific Councils, Course Director and Coordinator, Department and Core Chair and Pro-Rector.
He is the coordinator and a member of the judging panel for research and innovation projects funded by public and private foundations. He was one of the economists invited by the President of Portugal to the Post-Troika Portuguese Economy meeting on in 2013 and one of the economists invited by the Prime Minister to analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy and the subsequent crisis.

Last updated: May 2022

He is an associate professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE) in Lisbon. He got his PhD in Economics from Stockholm University in Sweden, where he also taught between 2007 and 2014.
He taught at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He worked as a researcher at the European Central Bank and was a fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.
He carried out research at the Centre for Economics and Finance at the University of Porto until 2019. His research focuses on the interaction between micro-heterogeneity and macroeconomic dynamics, particularly on the topics of fiscal policy and optimal taxation.
He has published several papers in international scientific journals, such as the Journal of Monetary Economics or the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and contributed to the second edition of the Handbook of Macroeconomics.

Last updated: April 2024

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