Personal data:

Name: Francisco José Alves Coelho Veiga
Place and date of birth: Lisbon - Portugal; October 21st, 1968
Marital status: Married (with 2 children)
Nationality: Portuguese
 
 

Academic Qualifications:

• Aggregation (Provas de Agregação) in Economics, Universidade do Minho, 18-19 September 2006.
• Ph.D. in Economics at the University of South Carolina, USA. From August 1994 to March 1998.
• Coursework of the  Master Programme in European Studies, area of Socio-Economic Studies, University of Minho, 10/1991-5/1993.
• Undergraduate degree In International Relations, Branch of Economic and Political Relations, University of Minho, 10/1987-7/1991.

Academic Experience:

• Since March 26, 2010: Full Professor, Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management,  University of Minho (UM).
• From September 2006 to March 2010: Associate Professor with Aggregation, Department of Economics, UM.
• From November 2003 to September 2006: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UM.
• From October 2005 to July 2006: Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Economics and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge.
• From July 1998 to November 2003: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UM.
• August 1994 to July 1998: Assistant, Department of Economics, UM.
• June 1994 to July 1998: Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of South Carolina, USA.
• September 1991 to June 1994: Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, UM.

Main teaching areas:

• International Monetary Economics
• Economic Growth
• Political Economy
• Macroeconomics

Main research areas:

• International money and finance
• Economic growth and development
• Political economy and public choice.

Editorial responsibilities:

•  Member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Political Economy, since 2013.
• Co-editor of Notas Económicas, since October 2016.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, since April 2018.

Recent administrative tasks at the University of Minho:

• Director of the Master's Programme in Economics,since February 2024 (also from September 2007 to May 2010).
• Dean of the School of Economics and Management, from October 2017 to December 2020.
• Member of the General Council of the University of Minho, from April 2013 to September 2017.
• Director of the Economic Policies Research Unit (NIPE), from September 1999 to March 2004 and from March 2007 to April 2013.
• Director of the PhD Program in Economics, from May 2009 to June 2012.

Taks in international organizations:

• President of the European Public Choice Society (EPCS), from April 2017 to April 2019.

For additional information see my Curriculum Vitae (short version).