Salvador Pérez-Moreno is Professor of Applied Economics–Economic Policy at the University of Malaga. His academic career focuses on the study of shared prosperity, with a particular interest in public policies and institutions that promote development and equity. His research areas include human development, inclusive growth, economic inequality, and child poverty, from local to international contexts.

He holds a Master’s degree in Development Finance from the University of London (SOAS), and a PhD in Economics from the University of Malaga, where he was awarded the Extraordinary Doctoral Award.

He has undertaken pre- and postdoctoral research stays at leading universities, including the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the University of Florence, and Maastricht University. He has been appointed Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy (University of Cambridge) and Affiliated Researcher at UNU-MERIT (Maastricht University and United Nations University).

Member of the research groups EQUALITAS and Public Economics and Equity (SEJ-559) and of the Institute of Economics and Business for Society (IEBSociety), he has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed journals (ORCID), as well as in books and book chapters issued by renowned publishers such as Civitas-Thomson Reuters, Palgrave Macmillan, Pearson, and Tirant lo Blanch. He has participated in numerous research projects and contracts, leading both national and regional R&D&I initiatives, as well as a wide range of collaborations with organisations including Maastricht University, LSE Enterprise, the CIFAL Network, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, UNICEF, the Cáritas-FOESSA Foundation, and the “la Caixa” Foundation. He has been awarded four six-year national research assessment periods (sexenios), one of them for knowledge transfer, and has supervised seven doctoral theses, with several more currently in progress.

His commitment to teaching was recognised with the University of Malaga Teaching Award among members of the Faculty of Economics and Business. He has served as Academic Coordinator of the Master’s in International Cooperation and Development Policies and of the PhD Programme in Economics and Business. He has also served as Director of the Doctoral School of the University of Malaga and is currently Vice-Rector for Doctoral and Postgraduate Studies.