Resident Members

Alex Armand is an Associate Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics, a research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (UK), and at the Navarra Centre for International Development (Spain). His current work focuses on the effect of providing education-related cash transfers on household outcomes, on the effect of local community engagement on natural resource management, on the role of media in reducing conflict, and on sanitation in urban slums. During his professional career, he has been leading research projects in Macedonia, Mozambique, India, Bolivia, Guatemala and Honduras. He consulted for the World Bank and the Ministry of Social Policy in the FYR of Macedonia. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University College London.

Catia Batista is a Full Professor of Economics at Nova SBE. Catia holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Her research interests include international migration and remittance flows, mobile money, entrepreneurship, technology adoption, and policy evaluation. She has done work including randomized and lab-in-the-field experiments in countries such as Cape Verde, the Gambia, Ireland, Kenya, Portugal, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. Catia has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, and Notre Dame University. She is currently a research fellow at the international research centers CReAM (London, UK) and IZA (Bonn, Germany), and has previously worked at the International Monetary Fund and at Portuguese Catholic University. She has consulted for the World Bank and the International Growth Center.

Adeline Delavande is a Professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics and at the University of Technology Sydney. Her expertise is on methodological issues related to the elicitation of probabilistic expectations in developed and developing countries, and on how probabilistic expectations can be used to improve inference on individuals’ decision-making under uncertainty. Substantive topics of interest include contraception, risky sexual behavior in high HIV prevalence environment, retirement, education, and early childhood development. She has been involved in many data collection efforts, including in Malawi, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, the US and the UK.

Miguel A. Ferreira holds the BPI | Fundação “la Caixa” Chair in Responsible Finance at Nova School of Business and Economics.
He is the Dean of Faculty and Research at Nova School of Business and Economics. He is also a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He has a PhD in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics, and a Licenciatura in Business from ISCTE.
His research interests include corporate finance and governance. His research has been published in academic journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies and Management Science. He is associate editor for the Journal of Banking and Finance. He has been a recipient of several research grants and awards including a European Research Council (ERC) grant.

Francesco Franco is Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics since 2004. Ph.D. in Economics, 2004, by the Massachussets Institute of Technology; M.Sc. in Economics, 1998, at Bocconi University; and Laurea in Economia Política, 1996, by Bocconi University. His research interests include fluctuations and applied macroeconomics, topics on which he has published in Portuguese and international journals. He is referee of various journals, among which the American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Applied Economics and the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is currently working on research projects on identification in macroeconomics and on finance and macroeconomic fluctuations.

Miguel Lebre de Freitas is an Associate Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. His research interests include macroeconomics, international finance and economic growth, having published in journals such as the Journal of International Money and Finance, the Canadian Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Common Market Studies. His professional experience includes an appointment as Director of the Cabinet of Strategy and Studies at the Portuguese Ministry of Economy, an Economist position at the Department of Economic Studies of the Bank of Portugal, as well as the participation in many short-term consulting projects in the areas of economics and finance, promoted by domestic and international institutions, such as the European Commission, the World Bank, the United Nations, and the CEPS. Miguel holds a Licenciatura and an MSc in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics, and a PhD in Economics from the University of London.

Victoire Girard is a researcher at Nova School of Business and Economics. She holds a PhD in economics from Paris 1 Pantéhon-Sorbonne University. Her research is in Developement Economics and Political Economy, with a focus on inequalities, identities, violences, and the local impact of natural resources extraction. She exploits large household surveys and other geocoded data that are from Burkina Faso, India, Kazakhstan, or Pan-African. Victoire has taught in the Universities of Orléans and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has been an invited researcher at the economics departments of Brown University and of the University of Geneva and she has consulted for the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER).

Emanuel Gomes is an Associate Professor at Nova SBE. Previously, he was the Deputy Head of the Strategy and International Business department at the Birmingham Business School (UK). He is the Regional Editor (Africa) for the Journal of Knowledge Management and serves as a guest editor in various special issues. He is the author of three books and of several papers published in international refereed journals. His research interest is in the areas of international mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, strategic agility, product service innovation, microfoundations of strategy, and firm internationalisation, particularly in the African context. He has been involved in various research projects involving government bodies.

Pedro S. Martins is Professor of Economics at Nova SBE, where he also leads the master’s in International Development and Public Policy. He is a labour economist, conducting research on both developed and developing or emerging economies, including Mozambique, Brazil and China. His research is published in several journals such as the Journal of Labor Economics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, European Economic Review, Industrial Relations, and British Journal of Industrial Relations. He has also collaborated with several international organisations, including the ILO, the European Commission, and Socieux+. Before joining Nova SBE, Pedro was Professor at Queen Mary University of London and Secretary of State for Employment in the Government of Portugal.

Nikita Melnikov is an Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. He holds a Ph.D and a M.A in Economics from the University of Princeton. His current research interests include Political Economy, Media Economics, Development, and other Applied Microeconomics fields.
He is the author of several papers in top international journals such as American Economic Review or American Economic Journal. Nikita has taught Microeconomic Theory, an International Development in Princeton University and Microeconomics in the Higher School of Economics & New Economic School.
He was Prize Fellowship in the Social Sciences.

Caroline Miehe is a researcher at NOVAFRICA, a research center funded by Nova SBE, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and holds a Doctor of Economics from KU Leuven. She specializes in Development Economics and Agricultural Economics and is involved in the design and evaluation of several field experiments and randomized control trials in East Africa. Her current work focuses on asymmetric information in public service and agricultural input markets. Caroline has recently worked for LICOS (KU Leuven) and the Development Economics Group (Wageningen University) and has taught courses at the University of Potsdam and KU Leuven. She has published articles in academic journals such as World Development and Agricultural Systems, and authored reports, a book chapter, and various blogs.

Priscila de Oliveira is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics. Priscila holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She works on topics in Behavioral and Development Economics, with an emphasis on understanding the presence and consequences of behavioral biases in key decisions faced by firms in low and middle income countries. She has done work including randomized field and online experiments in Brazil and in the United States.

Susana Peralta holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium. Her research focus on the economics of multi-layered governments, including tax competition and political economy issues. She is an Associate Professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics, which she joined in 2004. She is a Research Associate of CEPR and CORE-UCL. Her work is published in academic journals such as The Economic Journal, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Urban Economics.

Brais Álvarez Pereira is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Nova School of Business and Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute. His current work uses lab and field experiments to study the relationship between group composition and performance, and the effect of communicating live price information and market advice to cashew farmers in Guinea-Bissau, where he directs the Bissau Economics Lab. Brais has taught at the Instituto Lorenzo de Medici and the Universidad Loyola Andalucía, and has previously worked at the ILO and as an ODI Fellow in the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Guinea-Bissau. He has consulted for the World Bank, UNDRR and UNDP.

Luis Brites Pereira is a Visiting Professor at The Lisbon MBA and Deputy Director of the Centre for Globalisation & Governance (CG&G) at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE). He was educated in Portugal (Ph.D in International Economics, Nova SBE) and South Africa (M. Com. and B. Econ. Sc. (Hons.), University of the Witwatersrand). Prior his current duties, he was a lecturer at Nova SBE and at the Wits Business School (Johannesburg) as well as a Post-Doc Research Fellow at the Tropical Research Institute (IICT). His recent research focuses on globalisation and governance interactions, particularly in African economies, and has been published in international peer-reviewed academic journals. His consulting experience, meanwhile, includes such institutions as Cape Verde’s Central Bank and the Macao Monetary Authority, China. In the past, he was also an economic advisor to the Portuguese government on the international dimension of its technological and innovation policy. More recently, he served in public office as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Portugal.

Rita Dias Pereira holds a Ph.D. from Erasmus University and Tinbergen Institute and a Master from Mannheim University. She conducts research on the intersection of genetics and economics, where she draws on novel findings in the social-science genetics literature to gain a deeper understanding of health and education inequalities. She has published in journals such as Nature Human Behaviour or Journal of Human Resources. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Nova School of Business and Economics.

Miguel Pina e Cunha is a full professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics. He works in the field of organizational behaviour and has published regularly on topics such as leaders and leadership, desired change and emergent change, virtuous organizations and toxic organizations. His most recent books are Liderança: A Virtude está no Meio (Actual, 2011), The Virtues of Leadership (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Manual de Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão (RH Editora, 2012, seventh edition). He has published around one hundred articles in journals such as European Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, and Management & Organizational History, among others.

Pedro Pires is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics. Pedro holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He works on topics in Behavioral Economics and Labor Economics. His research focus on the intersection between behavioral biases and decisions made in the labor market by both employers and workers, with applications to gig work, hiring decisions and employee productivity.

Francisco Queiró is an Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. His research focuses on the determinants of entrepreneurial performance, firm dynamics and aggregate productivity. His work has been supported by grants from Fundação Gulbenkian and Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. Francisco holds a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University.

Ana Balcão Reis is Associate Professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Department of Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, (currently Nova SBE). Her main research interests are on economic growth driven by technology development and adoption and the link between economic growth and the quality of the environment. The role of human capital accumulation on economic growth has led her more recently to the field of economics of education. She has taught courses on Macroeconomics, Economic Growth and Development for the Undergraduate and Ph.D. programs. More recently she is also teaching Economics of Education for the Masters’ program. Her work is published in academic journals such as the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the European Economic Review.

Marion Richard is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Nova School of Business and Economics. She holds a joint PhD in Economics from Paris School of Economics and Catholic University of Louvain. Her current work focuses on adaptation to and resolution of conflict and insecurity, legacies of colonial policies on demand for education, determinants of use of contraceptives and measurement of migration in developing countries. She uses household surveys, census and archival data drawn from the Sahelian and East African countries. She has been an invited researcher at the economics departments of the University of California Berkley, and she has consulted for the Institute of Research for Development (IRD) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Wayne Sandholtz is an Assistant Professor of economics at Nova SBE. His research focuses on the intersection of Development, Education, and Political Economy to study how and why public services improve. Some of his recent projects have examined the learning impacts of school reforms in Liberia and Tanzania, and electoral returns to public service provision in developing democracies. He has carried out field experiments in Liberia, Tanzania, and Uganda. His work has been supported by the IGC, FCT, and the EU, among others. Wayne holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.

Yannik Schenk is a researcher at NOVAFRICA at Nova SBE. He holds a Ph.D. from UCLouvain, Belgium. His research interests are rooted in Political Economy and Development Economics, with a special focus on the interplay between environmental conditions and livelihood systems. His current projects investigate the impact of coastal water pollution on fishing communities in the developing world and evaluate the potential of large-scale media campaigns to influence societal norms, such as fertility decisions and attitudes towards diverse societies. Yannik has taught courses on macroeconomic policy, microeconometrics, and spatial methods in R. He has been an invited researcher at ULaval and LISER and has consulted for the World Bank.

Utku Serhatli is an Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. He is primarily interested in sustainable operations with a focus on operational and social impacts of economic and environmental issues. His research utilizes data analysis and mathematical modeling such as optimization, dynamic programming, stochastic processes and game theory.
His teaching experience includes the core course of Operations Management at INSEAD and NOVA SBE. He is interested in designing a course in Sustainable Operations.
He obtained Doctor of Philosophy from INSEAD, prior to joining NOVA SBE. He also holds a Master of Science from INSEAD and Bachelor of Science from Bilkent University. He previously worked as financial consultant at TATA Consultancy Group.

André Silva is Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. His research is on Development, Finance, and Macroeconomics. He has papers on topics such as capital flows, innovation, and the demand for money. He teaches courses on Macroeconomics and Finance for the Undergraduate, Masters and Ph.D. programs. Before working at Nova SBE, André Silva taught at the University of Chicago, in the United States, and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil; and worked as a consultant at Accenture. André Silva has presented his research in international conferences and seminars. His recent research includes the effect of portfolio rebalancing on the calculations of the welfare cost of inflation, the determinants of capital flows, and the effects of the capital structure on incentives to innovation.

Daniel Traça is currently professor of sustainable international business and the dean of Nova SBE, and invited professor at INSEAD. He graduated in Economics at Nova and holds a PhD in economics from Columbia University, New York. He was a professor at INSEAD, Paris and Singapore, and in the Solvay Brussels School in Brussels, where he was director of MBA programs. Daniel Traça also has several papers published in international journals in the field of international economics and economic development, as well as having collaborated with the European Commission and the World Bank.

Pedro Vicente is a full professor of economics and director of the Research Unit at Nova SBE. Pedro researches on development economics, with an emphasis on political economy issues, and a special interest in Africa. He designed and conducted field work (including randomized field experiments) in Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Nigeria, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe. He has published articles in journals such as the Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. Pedro holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, and is affiliated with BREAD (Duke University, USA) and with the CSAE (University of Oxford, UK). He is Lead Academic for Mozambique at the IGC (International Growth Center based at the LSE and Oxford), and a consultant for the World Bank.