Antonio Fatás

Antonio Fatás is the Portuguese Council Chaired Professor of Economics at INSEAD, an international business school with campuses in Fontainebleau (France) and Singapore. He is also a Senior Policy Scholar at the Center for Business and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business (Georgetown University, USA), a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (London, UK) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER, Singapore) He received a Masters and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA). He has also worked as an External Consultant for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the OECD and the European Commission. He was the Dean of the MBA programme at INSEAD from September 2004 to August 2008. His research covers areas such as the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy, the connections between business cycles and growth and the effects of institutions on macroeconomic policy and has published in academic journals such as Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Money, Banking and Credit, and Economic Policy.