Biography Jordi Gual is professor of economics at IESE Business School, where he has been teaching since 1987. He was previously the academic director of the Public-Private Sector Research Center, an IESE research center dedicated to improving communication between businesses and public administration. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California-Berkeley, and in the fall of 2000 returned to his Alma Mater as a visiting professor in the Economics Department. Prof. Gual is currently chief economist and head of research of the savings bank "la Caixa" and previously held the position of economic advisor to the managing director for economic and financial affairs of the European Commission in Brussels (from 1994-1996). Since 1989, Prof. Gual has been a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London) and research associate of the Instituto de Análisis Económico (CSIC, Barcelona), as well as a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy of the European Commission. He researches and publishes on the topic of applied industrial economics (competition policy, telecommunications, banking) and has worked as a consultant for various large industrial and financial companies, as well as foundations and international organizations including the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European Commission. He is author and co-author of the books: Integration of European Banking: The Way Forward CEPR, London (2005); Building a Dynamic Europe: The Key Policy Debates, Cambridge University Press, (2004) and Liberalization of Network Industries: Conflicting Priorities. Telecommunications in Europe, A Report on Monitoring European Deregulation, CEPR, London (1998), among many others. Prof. Gual is a Fulbright Scholar and was awarded the "Grant for Research on European Integration" by the European Commission. In 1999, he received the European Bank Prize for European Economic practices. |
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