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Xavier Vives Torrents. Director

Francesc Xavier Vives Torrents was appointed to our board in June 2008.

Professor of Economics and Finance and academic director of the Public-Private Research Centre at the IESE Business School, Mr. Vives Torrents also holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

He was also a Professor of European Studies at INSEAD in 2001-2005; Director of the Institute of Economic Analysis at the High Council of Scientific Research in 1991-2001; and a visiting lecturer at the universities of California (Berkeley), Harvard, New York (King Juan Carlos I Chair 1999-2000), and Pennsylvania, as well as the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

He has published numerous articles in international journals and written various books as well as advising the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Commission and various international companies. Mr. Vives Torrents has also received several Spanish research awards including the King Juan Carlos I Prize for Research into Social Sciences in 1988; the Catalan Society for Economics prize in 1996; the Narcís Monturiol Medal from the Catalonia regional government in 2002 and the Catalonia Economics Prize in 2005. He served as president of the Spanish Economic Association (2008), He was deputy chairman of the Spanish Association for Energy Economics (2006-2009), and is the recipient of the European Research Council Advanced Grant (2009-2013).

He currently serves on the Boards of Aula Escola Europea, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Research Fellow of the CESifo and the Center for Economic Policy Research; Fellow of the European Economic Association since 2004 and Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1992.

Last updated: 30 June 2010