Albert Carreras

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Position

Director of ESCI-UPF

Qualifications

PhD in Economic and Business Sciences (UAB, 1983)

Biography

Albert Carreras is professor of history and economic institutions at the School of Economics and Business at the UPF. He is also a member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans. He was a postdoc at UC Berkeley, a lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona, the European University Institute (Florencia) and Georgetown University and president of the European Business History Association. He has also held two Catalan government posts: he was secretary of Economics and Finance and secretary general of the Ministry for Business and Knowledge.