Teresa Garcia-Milà

Teresa Garcia-Milà (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1987) has been General Director of the Barcelona School of Economics since 2012. She is an economist specializing in Macroeconomics and Public Finance.

Professor Garcia-Milà’s research has been published in The Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics, among others. She also has successful experience in higher education management and the private sector.

Over the years, Professor Garcia-Milà has held academic management positions at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), an institution she joined in 1990. She has chaired the UPF Department of Economics and Business (2011-12), was Vice-rector of Scientific Policy (2009-11), and was Dean of Undergraduate Studies in Economics (1995-2000).

Professor Garcia-Milà has also been a member of all four BSE academic units. She is a Professor in the UPF Department of Economics and Business and an Associate Researcher of the Center for Research in International Economics (CREI). Earlier in her academic career, Garcia-Milà was an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC).

Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University – The State University of New York (SUNY).

Professor Garcia-Milà also has leadership experience in the private sector, where she served on the boards of Banc Sabadell, Enagas, and Vueling. Currently, she is a member of the board of Repsol and the executive committee of Barcelona Global. She is President of the Cercle d’Economia, a civic association that seeks to improve the quality of public debate through the publication of independent opinion on the main challenges that determine economic, social and political progress.

In the public sector, Professor Garcia-Milà was a member of the advisory board of AIRef, the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility in Spain and served on the advisory team for Spain’s Minister for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.

Professor Garcia-Milà is a former President of the Spanish Economic Association (2014).

Recognition for Professor Garcia-Milà’s contributions as an educator, an economist, and a scientist include the Narcís Monturiol Medal (2019), awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the Col·legi d’Economistes de Catalunya’s Member of Merit distinction (2016).