Personal data:
Name: Francisco José Alves Coelho Veiga
Place and date of birth: Lisbon - Portugal; October 21st, 1968
Marital status: Married (with 2 children)
Nationality: Portuguese
Academic Qualifications:
Aggregation (Provas de Agregação) in Economics, Universidade do Minho, 18-19 September 2006.
PhD in Economics at the University of South Carolina, USA. From August 1994 to March 1998.
Coursework of the Master Programme in European Studies, area of Socio-Economic Studies, University of Minho, 10/1991-5/1993.
Undergraduate degree in International Relations, Branch of Economic and Political Relations, University of Minho, 10/1987-7/1991.
Academic Experience:
Since March 26, 2010: Full Professor, Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, University of Minho (UM).
From September 2006 to March 2010: Associate Professor with Aggregation, Department of Economics, UM.
From November 2003 to September 2006: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UM.
From October 2005 to July 2006: Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Economics and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge.
From July 1998 to November 2003: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UM.
August 1994 to July 1998: Assistant, Department of Economics, UM.
June 1994 to July 1998: Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of South Carolina, USA.
September 1991 to June 1994: Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, UM.
Recent administrative tasks at the University of Minho:
Director of the Master's Program in Economics, since February 2024 (also from September 2007 to April 2010).
Dean of the School of Economics and Management, from October 2017 to December 2020.
Member of the General Council of the University of Minho, from April 2013 to September 2017.
Director of the Economic Policies Research Unit (NIPE), from September 1999 to March 2004 and from March 2007 to April 2013.
Director of the PhD Program in Economics, from May 2009 to June 2012.
Tasks in international organisations:
President of the European Public Choice Society (EPCS), from April 2017 to April 2019.
Main teaching areas:
International Monetary Economics
Economic Growth
Political Economy
Macroeconomics
Main research areas:
International money and finance
Economic growth and development
Political economy and public choice.
Editorial responsibilities:
Member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Political Economy, since 2013.
Co-editor of Notas Económicas, since October 2016.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, since April 2018.