Humberto Llavador is a Tenured Associate Professor of Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and an affiliate professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) and the Center for Studies on Planetary Wellbeing. He is also a researcher of the Institute of Political Economy and Governance (IPEG). Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California-Davis, he has held visiting professorships at Yale University and the Grantham Research Institute (GRI) at LSE, and was a scholar of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton.
His research focuses on the economics of climate change, political economy and welfare economics, with publications in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Journal of Economics: Microeconomics, Theoretical Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and Climatic Change, among others. In 2015, he published the book Sustainability for a Warming Planet (Harvard University Press) joint with John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre. This book received the X Catalan Economic Society Award in 2016.
He has actively engaged in many educational initiatives, having taught at UPF, BSE, Yale University, INSEAD-Singapore, Korea University, and the University of California. Beyond the classroom, he has spoken on teaching innovation at international conferences and offered courses on integrating experiments in the classroom. In 2012, he received the Recognition Jaume Vicens-Vives for teaching quality and innovation from the Catalan Government. Currently, he is a member of the editorial board of the CORE-econ project, a co-editor of Experiencing Economics, and the Delegate of the Rector for Teaching Innovation at UPF.
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