João Tovar Jalles

João Tovar Jalles, a Portuguese national, is a Senior Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Lisbon. Previously, he was a Senior Economist at the Portuguese Public Finance Council. Before that he spent 5 years at the IMF: 1 year in the Research Department and 4 years in the Fiscal Affairs Department, where he participated in negotiation and review missions to Senegal and Georgia. Before joining the Fund, João was the Economist of the Brazil-Portugal Desk at the OECD’s Economics Department and before that a Fiscal Economist at the ECB’s Fiscal Policies Division (where he was part of the Troika team for Portugal). João was also a Visiting Scholar at the IMF’s Research Department and a Visiting Researcher at the Bank of Portugal’s Research Department. Academically, he was an Invited Lecturer at Sciences Po (France), Assistant Professor at the University of Aberdeen (UK) and he also taught at the University of Cambridge (UK) and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).

João’s main research interest is applied macroeconomics, more specifically fiscal policy/public finance, structural reforms, macro-financial linkages, assessment of forecasts and energy economics.

He holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), a M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Warwick (UK), a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge (UK) and a Habilitation Degree (“Agregação”) from Universidade de Lisboa.