Humberto Llavador is a professor of economics at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), an affiliate professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and at the Centre for Studies on Planetary Wellbeing; he is also a researcher at the Institute for Political Economy and Governance. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis (2000) and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Alicante. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University and the Grantham Research Institute of the London School of Economics, among others. He was also a scholar of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton.

The core of his research hinges around the economics of climate change, political economy and welfare economics (https://humbertollavador.com). In 2015 he published the book Sustainability for a warming planet (Harvard University Press), winner of the 10th Catalan Economic Society award. He has collaborated as a scientific consultant with several private foundations and with the United Nations environmental (UNEP) and development (UNDP) programmes.

At UPF, he has held institutional positions as vice-dean of Academic Affairs; as director of the USQUID, and as coordinator of the research master’s degree in Economics, Finance and Management, in the Microeconomics area, and of the bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technology and Economic Analysis

In the teaching field, in addition to his work at UPF and the BSE he has taught courses at Yale University, INSEAD Business School in Singapore, Korea University, and at the University of California, Davis. He has also given lectures on teaching innovation –at the congresses of the European Economic Association and of the Spanish Economic Association (AEE)–, and has given training courses for teachers at several Spanish universities. He is a member of the Economic Education Committee of the AEE and has been chairman of the Jury and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic Olympiad. He currently collaborates in the CORE-Econ project and is the editor of Experiencing Economics. In 2012 he received the Jaume Vicens Vives distinction for teaching quality and innovation awarded by the Government of Catalonia.