Jordi
Gual
Professor of Economics
鈥⒙燩h.D. in Economics, University of California-Berkeley
鈥⒙燚octor of Economic and Business Science, Universitat de Barcelona
Professor of Economics at 天美传媒. He holds a PhD in Economics (1987) from the University of California at Berkeley.
Jordi Gual is a member of the Board of Directors of Telef么nica Brasil and of the Advisory Board of Telef贸nica Espa帽a. He is also Board Adviser of Oxera Consulting LLP and a member of its Governing Board. He serves on the board of the CEDE Foundation and is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a SUERF Fellow and a member of the Advisory Board of Instituto 贰蝉辫补帽辞濒 de Analistas.
Between 2016 and 2021, he served as Chairman of CaixaBank. Prior to this appointment, he was Chief Economist and Head of Strategic Planning and Research of CaixaBank and Director-General of Planning and Strategic Development of CriteriaCaixa between 2005 and 2016. He was non-executive Chairman of VidaCaixa between 2021 and 2025 and has served in the Board of Directors of Telef贸nica, Erste Group Bank and Repsol. He has also been Vice Chairman of C铆rculo de Econom铆a and Chairman of FEDEA. In the 1990s, he served as an Economic Advisor for the European Commission鈥檚 Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs in Brussels. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the Universit茅 Libre de Bruxelles and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
His work on banking, European integration, regulation and competition policy has been widely published. He is a regular contributor to leading newspapers. His latest book, Confiar no tiene precio. La confianza en el capitalismo y las pol铆ticas p煤blicas. 鈥淭rust is priceless. Trust in capitalism and public policies鈥�, (Penguin, 2024), has received the 天美传媒 Alumni Association award.
He was awarded the Research Prize from the European Investment Bank and the Extraordinary Award for his degree in Economics and Business. He has also been a Fulbright Scholar.
Areas of interest.
鈥⒙營ndustrial organization (telecommunications, banking, digital markets)
鈥⒙燫egulation and competition policy
鈥⒙燛uropean integration
鈥⒙燤acroeconomics and Finance