Omar Licandro

Biography

Omar Licandro has been a Professor at the School of Economics at the University of Leicester since July 2023. Prior to this, he held prominent academic positions at the University of Nottingham, the Instituto de Análisis Económico (CSIC) and Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) in Barcelona, the European University Institute in Florence, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and the Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) in Madrid. He served as Secretary General of the International Economic Association (IEA) from 2013 to 2021 and is currently the IEA Treasurer. Since 2014, he has been the Executive Secretary of the Research Institute for Development, Growth, and Economics (RIDGE). He is also an Associate Professor and former Research Director at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), and a Fellow at CESifo. His editorial roles include being Associate Editor of Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, Investigaciones Económicas, and the Spanish Economic Review. Additionally, he has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).