Professor of Economics and Finance at IESE Business School and Academic Director of the Public-Private Sector Research Center. He holds a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley and has been professor at INSEAD, Harvard, UAB, UPF, Pennsylvania, and New York University. He has published more than 100 papers in the main international scientific journals. From 2011 to 2014 he was Special Advisor to the Vicepresident of the EC and Commissioner for Competition, Mr Joaquín Almunia. He has advised the World Bank, the ECB, the Spanish and Catalan governments, the Strategic Metropolitan Plan of Barcelona (PEMB) as well as its City Council.