Salvador Pérez-Moreno is Full Professor at the Department of APPLIED ECONOMICS-ECONOMIC POLICY at the University of Malaga, Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, and Affiliated Researcher at UNU-MERIT, a joint research and training institute of United Nations University and Maastricht University.

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 (PhD Extraordinary Award).

He is a founding researcher and co-leader of the research group Public Economics and Equity (SEJ-559), and an active member of several international research networks, including EQUALITAS, ECINEQ, and the European Economic Association. He has held visiting research positions at various universities, including the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and Maastricht University. 

His research interests cover ECONOMIC POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS, INEQUALITY AND POVERTY, and INCLUSIVE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. The research results have led to numerous publications in high-impact journal articles, books and chapters. 

He has supervised seven PhD theses and more than twenty Master’s dissertations. He has participated in more than 30 research projects and contracts, both at national and international levels, leading some research projects (Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Regional Government of Andalusia, etc.) and a large number of research contracts, with Maastricht University, LSE Enterprise, CIFAL Network, UNICEF, Cáritas, FOESSA Foundation, OXFAM Intermon, ”la Caixa” Foundation....

He has been academic coordinator of the Master’s programme in International Cooperation and Development Policies, and of the PhD programme in Economics and Business of the University of Malaga, a joint PhD programme of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies and the Faculty of Marketing and Management Studies. 

Currently, he is Director of the Doctoral School of the University of Malaga.