Hugo de Almeida Vilares

Hugo is a Labour and Urban Economist and an Applied Microeconometrician, with work published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations and the Journal of Econometrics. He is an Assistant Professor at University of Porto and a Guest Teacher at Department of Management of LSE. He is affiliated at the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE), Economics for Policy Knowledge Center (Nova SBE) and CEMF.UP (U. Porto). He completed a Bachelor (2008) and a Masters degree in Economics (2013) at Nova SBE; and a Masters of Research (2017) and a PhD in Economics (2021) at London School of Economics.

His doctoral studies have been funded by grants of the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and FCT (PT). Before the current assigments, he worked as teaching assistant at Nova SBE (2011/2013) and LSE (2016/2021), as Teaching Fellow in Managerial Economics and Strategy at LSE (2018/2022), and as an economist at the Research Departments of the Portuguese Securities and Exchange Commission (2013) and of the Bank of Portugal (2013/2015).