Jordi Gual

Position(s):

Chief Economist at "la Caixa"
Professor of Economics at IESE Business School (University of Navarra, Barcelona-Madrid)
Professor, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
Barcelona, Spain

Experience & Areas of Interest:

During the Fall of 2000 he was Visiting Professor at the Economics Department of U.C. Berkeley. He joined IESE in 1987, and since 1989 he has been a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London). He is also a member of The Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (European Commission). Between September 1994 and September 1996 he was Economic Adviser to the Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission in Brussels.

Some of his most recent books are (co-author) Integration of European Banking: The Way Forward, CEPR, London (2005); Building a Dynamic Europe: The Key Policy Debates, Cambridge University Press, (2004).

Education:

• Ph.D Economics, University of California at Berkeley