El Patronato del Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA) en Ciencias Sociales es su máximo órgano de gobierno, representación y administración. De acuerdo con los estatutos, formarán parte de él tres miembros natos en representación de la Comunidad de Madrid y hasta un máximo de doce personalidades de reconocido prestigio en las materias científicas del Instituto. Adicionalmente, participan en el Patronato el Director General y el Director Gerente de la Fundación. En la actualidad, el Patronato está compuesto por los siguientes miembros:

MIEMBROS NATOS EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA ADMINISTRACIÓN REGIONAL:

MIEMBROS ELECTIVOS PERTENECIENTES A LA COMUNIDAD CIENTIFICA:

John H. Coatsworth is Acting Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs and Professor of History and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of seven books and many scholarly articles on Latin American economic and international history. He is a former president of the American Historical Association and president-elect of the Latin American Studies Association. Before coming to Columbia in 2007, he taught at Harvard University where he served as the founding Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies from its creation in 1994 until 2006. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the Tinker Foundation, and numerous professional associations. In 2005, he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Coatsworth received his BA degree in History from Wesleyan University (1963) and his MA (1967) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in Economic History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1969 until he joined the Harvard faculty in 1992. His other academic posts have included visiting professorships at El Colegio de México, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the National University of Buenos Aires, the Instituto Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, and the Instituto Ortega y Gassett in Madrid. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals including the American Historical Review, the Journal of Economic History, and the Hispanic American Historical Review and as well as social science and history journals published in Britain, Germany, Mexico, Peru, and Spain. Professor Coatsworth's most recent book is The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America (2 volumes, Cambridge University Press, 2006), edited with Victor Bulmer-Thomas and Roberto Cortes Conde. His research and publications have focused on comparative economic, social, and international history of Latin America, especially Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Other recent books include The United States and Central America: The Clients and the Colossus (New York: Twayne, 1994); Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), edited with Alan M. Taylor; Culturas Encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos edited with Rafael Hernández and published jointly by the David Rockefeller Center and Cuba's Juan Marinello Center in 2001. Professor Coatsworth was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1986, served as Senior Fulbright Lecturer three times (for appointments in Argentina and Mexico), and has received research and institutional grants from public agencies and private foundations in the United States and elsewhere. He has also acted as consultant for program design or review to numerous U.S. universities and private foundations.

Agustín Maravall holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctorate in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Madrid. He is chief economist at the Bank of Spain, and has been professor at the European University Institute in Florence, economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and engineer at the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture. His research on applied time series analysis and dynamic econometrics has been published in some one hundred works in scholarly journals (such as Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal Of Finance, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Communications in Statistics, Econometric Reviews, Econometrica, and Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, with several of them reprinted in books of readings), in the Spinger-Verlag monograph series Lecture Notes in Statistics and Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical System, and in many book chapters. He has been on the Editorial Board of many professional journals, and has given courses and seminars in close to 30 countries and 50 universities. With the collaboration of V. Gómez and G. Caporello, Dr Maravall has completed several programs for statistical treatment of time series: TRAMO (Time Series Regression with ARIMA Noise, Missing Observations and Outliers), SEATS (Signal Extraction in ARIMA Time Series), TERROR, which applies TRAMO to quality control or error detection, and TSW, a Windows extension of the previous programs. The programs, efficient and reliable when run automatically, are used intensively at institutions (in particular, central banks and statistical institutes), agencies, and companies involved in analysis or production of data. They are being incorporated into the official US Bureau of the Census and Eurostat packages and into several econometrics and statistics computer packages, and are described in several chapters of the book A Course in Time Series Analysis (Wiley, 2001). Dr Maravall is a former Fulbright Program and Ford Foundation fellow; a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Journal of Econometrics, an Oficial de la Orden Civil del Mérito Agrario; and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. In 2004 he became the first non-American to receive the Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics, from a selection committee formed by the US National Bureau of Economic Research, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Office of Management and Budget, Bureau of the Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Association for Business Economics, American Statistical Association, and Washington Statistical Society (the last three being the sponsoring societies). In 2005 he was awarded the Rey Jaime I Prize in Economics, sponsored by the Spanish Royal House, the Fundación Premios Rey Jaime I, and the Generalitat Valenciana, and awarded by a selection committee that included several Nobel Prize winners.

Timothy J. Kehoe received his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Providence College in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1979. He has held teaching positions at Wesleyan University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Cambridge in England. Dr Kehoe has been a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota since 1987, where he is currently Distinguished McKnight University Professor. In addition, he is an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. His research and teaching center on the theory and application of dynamic general equilibrium models. Dr Kehoe’s work on general equilibrium theory includes the study of when models with production and taxes have unique equilibria, investigation of indeterminacy of equilibria in overlapping generations models, and development of a theory of general equilibrium with constraints on the enforcement of contracts. His applications of general equilibrium models include studies of the impact of tax reforms and trade reforms, research on the causes of financial crises in developing economies, and the development of a methodology for studying economic depressions. Dr Kehoe advised the Spanish government on the impact of joining the European Community in 1986 and the Mexican government on the impact of joining the North American Free Trade Area in 1994. In 1997, working with a team from the Mexican consulting firm SAI Derecho y Economía, he helped design a foreign trade and investment reform program for Panama. The program was enacted by the Panamanian government in 1998. Dr Kehoe has held visiting professorships at the Universidad de Alicante, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Universitat de Barcelona, the University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Maryland, El Colegio de México, the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Stockholm School of Economics, and Victoria University of Wellington. Professor Kehoe has received numerous research grants and awards, including eight grants from the National Science Foundation. During the past two decades he has won over one and a half million U.S. dollars in grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Much of this money has been used to fund the work of Ph.D. students under his direction —many of whom have been natives of Spain. He has written more than 90 books and academic articles and has supervised 31 Ph.D. theses in Economics. Professor Kehoe has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1991. His community outreach work includes a position on the Board of Economists of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and a stint as a columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He is married to Jean O’Brien-Kehoe, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, who teaches American Indian and American Colonial History. They live on Nicollet Island in downtown Minneapolis.

Angel de la Fuente es Doctor en Ciencias Económicas por la Universidad de Pensilvania, donde recibió el premio a la mejor tesis doctoral en 1991, y MBA por la Universidad de Drexel. En la actualidad es Científico Titular y subdirector del Instituto de Análisis Económico del CSIC. Es profesor asociado de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y ha impartido cursos de postgrado en las universidades de Valencia, Murcia, Oviedo, Las Palmas, Santiago de Compostela, Carlos III y Pompeu Fabra, así como seminarios de formación en el Banco de España, el Banco Central Europeo y la Comisión Europea. Es “research fellow” del Centro de Referencia en Economía Analítica de Barcelona y del Instituto CESIfo de Munich, miembro de la European Expert Network on the Economics of Education, la Academia Europea de Ciencias y Artes y de la Junta Directiva de la Asociación Española de Economía. En 2002 recibió el accésit al I Premio de la Fundación Banco Herrero para jóvenes investigadores en ciencias sociales. La labor investigadora del Dr. de la Fuente se ha centrado en el análisis teórico y empírico de los determinantes del crecimiento económico y en la economía regional. Sus trabajos han sido publicados en revistas académicas nacionales e internacionales (American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, European Economic Review, Investigaciones Económicas y Revista Española de Economía) y en volúmenes colectivos. Es coautor de tres libros sobre diversos aspectos de la economía de las regiones españolas, incluyendo Políticas públicas y equilibrio territorial en el estado autonómico (Fundación BBVA, 2003), y autor de un manual de matemáticas para economistas (Mathematical methods and models for economists, Cambridge University Press, 2000), utilizado en cursos de postgrado en las mejores universidades del mundo. De la Fuente ha trabajado como consultor para el Banco Mundial, la OCDE, la Comisión Europea y diversas administraciones españolas, colaborando en la elaboración de informes técnicos sobre el impacto de la inversión en educación e infraestructuras así como en la evaluación de las políticas comunitarias. Entre estos informes cabe destacar Human capital in a global and knowledge-based economy (Office for official publications of the European Communities, Luxemburgo, 2003) y Who's afraid of the big enlargement? Economic and social implications of the European Union's Eastern enlargement (CEPR, Londres, 2002). El profesor de la Fuente es editor de la Revista de Economía Aplicada y miembro de los consejos editoriales de Investigaciones Económicas y Economic and Social Review, y ha sido editor asociado de Revista Española de Economía y miembro de los consejos editoriales de Moneda y Crédito y Hacienda Pública Española. Ha sido también director de la XI Summer School de la European Economic Association, y miembro de los comités científicos de diversas ediciones de los Annual Meetings de la European Economic Association, la European Regional Science Association, la Econometric Society, el Simposio de Análisis Económico y el Encuentro de Economía Aplicada.

Jesús Huerta de Soto es el más destacado representante de la Escuela Austriaca en el mundo hispánico. Posee los grados de Doctor en Derecho (1984) y en Economía (1992) por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, y MBA por Stanford University (1983). En la actualidad, es Catedrático de Economía Política en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid. Un escritor prolífico, el Dr. Huerta de Soto es autor de varios libros (Socialismo, Cálculo Económico y Función Empresarial, Unión Editorial, 1992; Mercado y Creatividad Empresarial, Editorial Síntesis, 2000; Dinero, crédito bancario y ciclos económicos, Unión Editorial, 2006), así como de numerosas monografías y artículos en revistas científicas y de pensamiento. El Profesor Huerta de Soto también ha desarrollado una ingente labor editorial, ocupándose de la selección, revisión y corrección de las traducciones, así como de la autoría de los Prólogos, Estudios Introductorios y Prefacios de la Colección «Nueva Biblioteca de la Libertad», en la que ya se han publicado más de treinta volúmenes. Es, asimismo, el responsable de la Edición Española de The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, que están siendo publicados en 22 volúmenes por las editoriales The University of Chicago Press (EEUU) y Routledge (Reino Unido). El Profesor Huerta de Soto es Adjunct Scholar del Instituto Ludwig von Mises, pertenece al equipo de dirección de la Mont Pelerin Society, es miembro del consejo editorial del Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics y fundador y director de la revista académica Procesos de Mercado. En 1983, el Dr. Huerta de Soto obtuvo el Premio Extraordinario de Economía Rey Juan Carlos por su estudio sobre la Privatización de las Pensiones en España, y en 2005 recibió el Adam Smith Award. Este premio, que concede el Centro para la Nueva Europa (CNE) –el mayor think tank europeo– es otorgado al pensador o investigador europeo que más méritos haya acumulado a lo largo de su carrera en la profundización y la difusión del pensamiento liberal y en el estudio del funcionamiento del mercado libre. Con este galardón ha llegado el definitivo reconocimiento internacional a toda su extensa y profunda obra en defensa de la libertad individual, el libre mercado y la teoría económica en general.

Mauro F. Guillén is the Dr Felix Zandman Endowed Professor of International Management at the Wharton School, and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology of the University of Pennsylvania. He previously taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and teaches once a year at Instituto de Empresa and the Complutense University of Madrid. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University and a Doctorate in political economy from the University of Oviedo in his native Spain. He is the coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Management at the Wharton School, and has been the coordinator of the Economic Sociology Ph.D. track in the Department of Sociology. Professor Guillén received a Wharton MBA Core Teaching Award, a Wharton Graduate Association Teaching Award, the Gulf Publishing Company Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management, the W. Richard Scott Best Paper Award of the American Sociological Association, and the President’s Book Award of the Social Science History Association. He is an Elected Fellow of the Macro Organizational Behavior Society, a former Fulbright, Rafael del Pino, and Guggenheim Fellow, and a Member in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Dr Guillen’s research deals with the internationalization of the firm, and with the impact of globalization on patterns of organization and on the diffusion of innovations. His most recent books include: The Rise of Spanish Multinationals (Cambridge University Press), The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture (Princeton University Press), The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain (Princeton University Press, 2001), Models of Management (The University of Chicago Press, 1994), and The AIDS Disaster (Yale University Press, 1990; co-authored with Charles Perrow). His research has also appeared in a variety of academic journals in four separate fields: Management (Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Advances in International Comparative Management, Industrial & Corporate Change, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Financial Services Research Organization, Trends in Organizational Behavior, Business Horizons, and Sloan Management Review), Sociology (American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, and Social Forces), Area Studies (East Asian Economic Perspectives, Journal of Latin American Studies, and Latin American Research Review), and Applied Policy (Telecommunications Policy and Transnational Corporations). He serves on the editorial boards of the American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of International Business Studies. Dr Guillén is married and lives in Philadelphia. His professional opinions have received media coverage worldwide.

Ruth V. Aguilera is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received a Graduate Diploma in Business Analysis from the University of Lancaster (1990), a Licenciatura in Economics (1992) from the University of Barcelona, and M.A. (1996) and Ph.D. (1999) degrees in Sociology from Harvard University. Professor Aguilera specializes in corporate governance, organizational theory, and historical comparative methods. Her research interests lie in the intersection of economic sociology and international management. She has spent considerable time conducting research at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) in Berlin, the Università Luigi Bocconi in Milan, the Juan March Institute in Madrid, and the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI-MITI) in Tokyo. Her research has been published in scholarly journal such as Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, Academy of Management Review, British Journal of Management, Economic Sociology, European Sociological Review, International Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Industrial Relations, and Organization Studies, as well as in several conference proceedings and numerous book chapters. She is also the co-editor with Michal Federowicz of the book Corporate Governance in a Changing Economic and Political Environment: Trajectories of Institutional Change (Palgrave McMillan, 2004), in which Eastern and Western European corporate governance systems are compared. At the University of Illinois, Professor Aguilera has taught courses in International Management, and Global Strategy to undergraduates, MBA students, and global executives. In addition, she teaches a course in Comparative Employment Systems in the Masters in Human Resources Management Program, and a seminar on corporate governance at the European Union Center. Dr Aguilera has received numerous research grants from a number of institutions, including the Center for International Business Research and Education (CIBER), Center for International Education and Research in Accounting (CIERA), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Krupp Foundation Fellowship and Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University. Professor Aguilera was a Beckman Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study, and is currently a Fellow at the European Union Center and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center at the University of Illinois. She is also on the Executive Committee of the Center of Human Resource Management (CHRM). Dr Aguilera serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, Organization Studies, and Revista de Empresa.

José Manuel Campa is the Grupo Santander Professor of Finance at IESE Business School, where he serves as Director of Research. He received undergraduate degrees in business economics and law from the University of Oviedo, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University. He taught at the Stern School of Business at New York University from 1991 to 2000 and has been on the faculty at IESE Business School since that year. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economic Policy Research and the Bank of Spain. Dr Campa has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI); a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank for International Settlements; and a consultant for the World Bank, the Interamerican Development Bank and the European Commission. He has also served as a consultant to private institutions and as an expert witness on issues relating to international valuation, risk management and international finance. Professor Campa has received the Stern School Professor of the Year Award, the IESE Faculty Research Award, the Gérman Bernácer Prize to the best economist under forty from a euro zone country specializing in the area of financial economics, and the Fundación Banco Herrero Research Award. He is a former Fulbright and Bank of Spain scholar, and was a holder of the Fundación BBVA Visiting Chair at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Dr Campa’s main areas of academic and research activity include international financial markets, exchange rate determination, foreign exchange risk management, financial integration and corporate governance. He has contributed many papers in those fields. His work has appeared in such journals as American Economic Review, European Economic Review, European Financial Management, International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Economics, Management Science, and Review of Economics and Statistics. His current research interests focus on the transmission mechanisms from exchange rates to prices, international corporate integration in Europe, and international corporate valuation and corporate governance. Professor Campa serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, European Economic Review, European Financial Management, Spanish Economic Review, Investigaciones Económicas, Expansión and Actualidad Económica. He lives in Madrid with his wife, Wendy, and their three children. He enjoys running, skiing, and spending time with his friends.

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose es Catedrático de Geografía Económica de la London School of Economics and Political Science, donde dirige el Máster en Desarrollo Económico Local desde 1995, y Profesor en Estudios Económicos Europeos del Colegio de Europa en Brujas. Es también fellow Royal Society-Wolfson. Su formación abarca distintas ciencias sociales. Es Licenciado en Geografía e Historia (Primer Premio Nacional, Premio Complutense y Premio Extraordinario de fin de carrera) por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Licenciado en Derecho por la UNED, Master en Política Europea por la Universidad Libre de Bruselas, Doctor en Geografía (premio extraordinario) por la Universidad Complutense, y Doctor en Ciencias Sociales y Políticas (con la máxima distinción) por el Instituto Universitario Europeo de Florencia. Aparte de su docencia en la LSE, el Dr. Rodríguez-Pose ha sido profesor visitante en las universidades de Cambridge, Hannover y Lovaina, entre otras europeas, así como en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Antes de dedicarse al mundo académico, fue director del Servicio de Estudios del Gabinete de Planificación y Desarrollo Territorial de la Xunta de Galicia. Ha trabajado como consultor para la Comisión Europea (Direcciones Generales de Empleo y Asuntos Sociales, Investigación y Política Regional), el Banco Europeo de Inversiones, la Organización Internacional del Trabajo, el Banco Mundial, la Cities Alliance y los ministerios británicos y danés de cooperación y ayuda al desarrollo. La trayectoria científica del Prof Rodríguez-Pose está avalada por prestigiosos premios de investigación. Es hasta el momento el único especialista en ciencias sociales al que le ha sido concedido el Premio de Investigación Royal Society-Wolfson, por su contribución al estudio del impacto de los procesos de descentralización sobre el crecimiento económico. En 2001 le fueron otorgados el Premio Philip Leverhulme, en reconocimiento a su aportación al avance de la Geografía Económica, y el Gill Memorial Award, de la Real Sociedad Geográfica británica, por su contribución al conocimiento de las disparidades y políticas regionales. En 2005 un artículo suyo recibió el Premio Ashby al artículo más innovador publicado en la revista Environment and Planning A. Entre 2001 y 2006, el Dr. Rodríguez-Pose ha ejercido como secretario de la Asociación Europea de Ciencia Regional, y actualmente es editor de la revista Government and Policy y miembro del Comité Editorial de Environment and Planning A, Journal of Regional Science, Growth and Change, Investigaciones Regionales y Scienze Regionali. Italian Journal of Regional Science, entre otras revistas científicas. Su investigación gira en torno a temas de desarrollo y crecimiento económico, descentralización, instituciones y políticas públicas, tanto en el ámbito europeo, como en el resto del mundo. Sus libros incluyen Reestructuración socioeconómica y desequilibrios regionales en la Unión Europea (Instituto de Estudios Económicos, Madrid, 1995), The dynamics of regional growth in Europe (Oxford University Press, 1998), The European Union: Economy, Society and Polity (Oxford University Press, 2002) y Local and Regional Development (Routledge, 2006, en colaboración con Andrew Pike y John Tomaney). Sus trabajos han aparecido en revistas científicas internacionales de primer orden en los campos de la Geografía, los Estudios Regionales y la Ciencia Regional.

Sofía Pérez is a tenured Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University, where she also serves as the Director of the graduate programs in Political Science (Ph.D. and M.A.). She received her undergraduate degree in political science and economics, as well as her MA and Ph.D. degrees in political science from the George Washington University. She is also an affiliate at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies, where she has co-chaired a number of study groups, including the Iberian Study Group since 1998. A German Marshall Fund Fellow, Dr Pérez has also received research fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, and the European Union. Professor Pérez has served on the Annual Conference program committee of the American Political Science Association as program chair for the Division on Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrialized Countries, and as a member of the Sage Price committee, which selects the best paper in comparative politics presented at the Association’s annual conference. As an affiliate of the Harvard Center for European Studies, Dr Pérez has served as organizer of a number of conferences on contemporary Spanish and European politics. Dr Pérez’ main research and publications have been in the area of European political economy, in particular the politics of financial regulation in Spain and other European Union member states, as well as issues concerning social concentration, the regulation of labor markets, and the politics of exchange rate commitments and the consequences of European Monetary Union. Her work has appeared in leading academic journals in political science, such as the International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Governance. She is the author of Banking on Privilege: The politics of Spanish Financial Reform (Cornell University, 1997) and a co-author of Capital Ungoverned: Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States (CornellUniversity 1997). She has also authored a number of chapters that have appeared in edited volumes, most recently a chapter on the impact of European monetary union on Spain’s model of social regulation that is included in Euros and Europeans: Monetary Integration and the European Model of Society (Cambridge University Press, 2004). She has been a contributor to the Spanish academic journal Historia y Politica. Dr Pérez’ current research focuses on the relationship between changing citizenship rights in the European Union and the regulation of labor markets, as well as on the relationship between competing types of political identity and concepts of social solidarity in EU member states and beyond.

Benigno Valdés is Professor of Economics and a former Vice-Dean of the ICADE Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Universidad Pontificia Comillas) in Madrid, where he teaches Macroeconomic Theory and Policy. He holds a Degree of Licenciatura in Economics (1980) from the University of Oviedo (Spain), and M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees in Economics from the University of New Hampshire, where he was a Fulbright Scholar for several years. Professor Valdés has also held teaching positions at Marquette University in Milwaukee, the University of Salamanca, the International Management Center (IMaC) at the Ecole Supérieur de Commerce de Rouen, the University of Oviedo, the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), the University of Massachusetts, and the University of New Hampshire. Dr Valdés has contributed articles to scientific journals on a number of topics, including the economics of technical change, applied econometrics, higher education, economic development and the history of economics. He is the author of the book Economic Growth: Theory, Empirics and Policy (Edward Elgar, 1999, 2000) and also a contributor to Spain’s major economic and political newspapers Expansión and La Razón. Professor Valdés is the recipient of various academic awards, including the Premio Extraordinario for the Degree of Licenciatura in Economics (University of Oviedo, 1980), the Fulbright Fellowship (from 1980 to 1993), the Elizabeth C. Bogan Award for Superior Scholarship (University of New Hampshire, 1982), the Marc Rich Foundation Fellowship (from 1990 to 1992) and the Teaching Prize for Economics (University of Salamanca, 1997). As an academic administrator, Dr Valdés has written about innovations in teaching; participated in the development and launching of new degrees; served on university curriculum committees; revised and updated program majors and degrees; conducted evaluations of existing programs; prepared assessments for new programs; negotiated contractual agreements with other institutions for the implementation of academic programs; chaired faculty committees; worked and consulted with diverse ethnic groups; written significant portions of the accreditation reviews; served on the academic governance committees responding to accreditation standards; hosted representatives from national and international educational institutions andagencies; negotiated, implemented and supervised a large number of international exchange programs for students and faculty. Currently, he is a member of the Committee for the Evaluation of University Professors at the University System in Madrid and an adviser to the Council of Education. An indefatigable traveller, Dr Valdés has visited many countries, often as an academic economist –and always as an interested observer. He lives in Madrid with his wife, Silvia, and their six-year old daughter, Adriana. In his free time, he enjoys cooking and hiking.

DIRECTOR GERENTE DE LA FUNDACION IMDEA CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Fernando M. Amigo is IMDEA Social Sciences General Manager. He holds an ABD in Insurance Sciences and Business Administration (Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, 2006), a Master of Science in Management (University of Massachusetts, 1989), an ABD in Romance Languages (University of Massachusetts, 1989), a Master of Arts in Romance Languages (University of Georgia, 1986), an MBA (Instituto de Empresa, 1984), a Degree in International Business (London Business School, 1984), and a Licenciatura in Economics and Business Administration from Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (1982). Over the last 18 years, Fernando has worked extensively as a Management Consultant for Price Waterhouse, Andersen Consulting, Accenture, Atlante Europraxis, and Transfer Management Services. He has advised top national and multinational organizations in a variety of sectors (including pharmaceuticals, transportation, infrastructures, retailing, regional and local Administration, and insurance) on such matters as general management, business strategy, risk assessment, market evaluation, joint venture structuring, mergers and acquisitions, regional and local development, and training and professional development, among others. Besides the advising of clients, he held management responsibilities dealing with leadership, and market & product development. He has also been CEO of Professional Training, a leading Spanish in-company training firm, and in 2005 he became a Commissioned Consultant of the European Union for the Study of the Informal Economy in Ecuador. Fernando has always maintained a keen interest in academics and teaching. He has lectured at Spanish and US universities, MBA programs and professional meetings. He is currently teaching Marketing Strategy, Strategic Planning, and Entrepreneurship at Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and collaborates with the Strategy Department at Instituto de Empresa. He is working on a dissertation on Insurance Science and has contributed articles to such professional outlays as The Harvard-Deusto Business Review, Economistas and Actas Riesgo. Fernando lives in Madrid with his wife, Ana, and their two children, Alejandro and Virginia. He enjoys music, films, literature, and rather light squash, cycling and swimming.

DIRECTOR GENERAL DE LA FUNDACION IMDEA CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Benigno Valdés

Director General de la Fundación IMDEA Ciencias Sociales