BOARD
President
INMACULADA MARTÍNEZ-ZARZOSO
INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY JAUME I, IBERO-AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS RESEARCH AND CENTER OF GLOBAL MIGRATION STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN
She has advised the World Bank, the OECD, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the Asian Development Bank Institute. Her main research fields include international economics, environmental economics, and development economics.
She is the author of three books and more than 150 articles in leading international journals such as the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, World Development, Ecological Economics, and Environmental and Resource Economics. Her current research focuses on environmental provisions in trade agreements, migration and remittances, trade networks, and sustainable global value chains.
VICE-President
FRANCISCO SERRANITO (INFER Research-Webinars Committee)
University Paris 13 and CEPN
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT
dimitrios paparas (INFER Dissemination and Communication Committee)
HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY, GLOBAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRI-TECH ECONOMICS
Dimitrios Paparas is a Reader (Associate Professor) at Harper Adams University since 2013 and he is the Course manager in M.Sc. programs (Business Economics, Agricultural Economics, International Agribusiness management). He got his PhD (UEL) in Fiscal Policy and he also worked as a lecturer in Kingston University, University of East London and Coventry University. Dimitrios is currently a Senior Fellow in the HEA. His main research interests are agricultural economics, environmental economics, and macroeconomics.
ThirD VICE-PRESIDENT
CLAUDIU TIBERIU ALBULESCU (iNFER Publication Committee, internal Publications)
POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA
Claudiu Tiberiu Albulescu is Full Professor of Economics and Finance at the Politehnica University of Timisoara (UPT), Management Department. He is the Director of the Department for International Relations at UPT and the former Director of the Research Center in Engineering and Management. He has a Ph.D. in in Economics/Finance from the West University of Timisoara and University of Poitiers (double diploma). Claudiu Albulescu followed a postdoctoral program at the Romanian Academy and in 2014 he received the Habilitation title in Finance. He is also associated researcher at CRIEF, University of Poitiers, and at the Doctoral School of Economics and Business Administration within the West University of Timisoara. Claudiu Albulescu was visiting professor at University of Poitirs and visiting researcher at University of Orléans. He published over 80 journal articles, 20 proceeding papers, 3 books and 5 book chapters. His research activity mainly focuses on the financial macroeconomics, banking and finance, environmental and energy economics. Claudiu Albulescu organized two INFER workshops and is the local organizer of the 24th INFER Annual Conference 2022 in Timisoara.
OTHER BOARD MEMBERS
JOSEP-MARIA ARAUZO-CAROD(INFER Publication Committee, External Publications)
UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI
Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod is Full Professor of Economics at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Chair of the Research Center of Economics and Sustainability (ECO-SOS), member of the research group Quantitative Urban and Regional Economics (QURE), member of the Board of the Council of the Catalan Competition Commission (ACCO), Fellow at the MSH Val de Loire, and Affiliated Researcher at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB). He has a Bachelor Degree in Economics (Universitat de Barcelona) and a PhD in Economics (Universitat Rovira i Virgili). His research topics include Urban and Regional Economics, Industrial Location and Cultural and Creative Industries, areas in which he has published several articles, books, and book chapters. You can follow him on twitter (@IND_LOC).
Cecilio Tamarit (INFER Workshop Committee)
University of Valencia
cecilio.tamarit@uv.es
Cecilio Tamarit is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Valencia. He holds an endowed “ad personam” Jean Monnet Chair in Economic Integration from the European Commission and is a research affiliate of the INTECO UV-UJI joint research unit. He was previously Senior Fellow at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), Senior Advisor to the Spanish Prime Minister, invited professor at the University of Nottingham, visiting scholar at Goettingen and Harvard, and “Robert Schuman Scholar” at the Research Directorate of the European Parliament. His main lines of research are Monetary and Fiscal Integration, International Trade and Macroeconometrics. He has published extensively in academic journals as Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Economic Inquiry or Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. He currently serves as advisory editor in Springer’s journal Environmental Modeling and Assessment. He earned a MA from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and a Ph D. (with honors) from the University of Valencia. He has been a consultant to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and the European Commission, member of the WES group of experts (CESifo) and the Euro Area Business Cycle Network (ECB). He has been President of the Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance (AEEFI-IEFS), Chair of the Advisory Committee in the Spanish National Commission for Research Assessment (CNEAI). He also served successively as Vice-President and President of the Asociación Libre de Economía (ALdE), where he is an honorary fellow. He is currently a member of the advisory council (Kuratorium) of the Ibero-America institute for Economic Research (University of Goettingen) and a member of the Board of INFER (International Network of Economic Research).
IOANNIS KOSTAKIS ( INFER AC 2024)
Harokopio University of Athens
Dr Ioannis Kostakis is an economist (University of Crete, Greece). He holds a Master of Science in Economics and Econometrics (University of Kent, UK) and a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Harokopio University (State Scholarships Foundation (IKY)). He has experience both in the private and public sectors. He has taught several economic modules at Harokopio University and Hellenic Open University in recent years. His current research fields include applied economics and econometrics theory, quantitative methods in economics, and sustainability issues.
Agnieszka Gehringer (INFER co-Treasurer)
Cologne University of Applied Sciences (TH Köln)
agnieszka.gehringer@th-koeln.de
Agnieszka Gehringer is a professor of economics at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, a lecturer at the University of Göttingen and a senior research analyst at an independent think tank, the Flossbach von Storch Research Institute in Cologne, where she covers macroeconomic research related to current developments in financial markets and central banking. She studied economics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and earned a PhD in economics of complexity at the University of Turin. Her broader research interests include international macroeconomics, innovation economics and economic policy. Her research output has been published in academic peer-reviewed journals, such as Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy and International Journal of Production Economics. She is also an author of a recent book entitled “Mapping Sustainability Measurement: A Review of the Approaches, Methods, and Literature”. Agnieszka also serves as a speaker at investment summits and meetings of financial professionals, such as Salone del Risparmio in Milan, Consuletia in Rome and at the training meetings of the European Financial Planning Association.
GALINA KOLEV-SCHAEFER(INFER co-Treasurer)
Cologne University of Applied Sciences (TH Köln) and German Economic Institute (IW)
galina.kolev-schaefer@th-koeln.de
Galina Kolev-Schaefer is Professor of Economics at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences (TH Köln) and Senior Researcher at the German Economic Institute (IW) in Cologne. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, she studied Business Administration at the University of Mannheim. Her doctoral dissertation at the Department for Economics of the University of Mannheim covers different aspects of the European integration. In 2012 she joined the IW as researcher in the unit Global Economic Order. From 2019 to 2022 she was professor of economics, especially international economic relations at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. In 2022 she joined the Schmalenbach Instutute for Economics at the TH Cologne. Kolev-Schaefer has numerous contributions to the policy-oriented research of trade policy issues, macroeconomics and political economy. Currently the focus of her research is on the interaction between trade and climate policy as well as on the sustainability and resilience of global value chains.
ELEONORA CAVALLARO (INFER Publication Committee, External Publications)
Sapienza Università di Roma
eleonora.cavallaro@uniroma1.it
Eleonora Cavallaro holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Rome Sapienza, where she is Associate Professor and teaches advanced macroeconomics and international economics and finance. Her broader research interests are in theoretical and empirical macroeconomic dynamics, with particular focus on financial heterogeneity, growth convergence/divergence and European economics. The results of her research have been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals. Eleonora was awarded the INFER Policy Research Award in 2023; she organised the INFER Workshop on Economic Growth and Macroeconomic dynamics in 2022 and 2024, and was the local organiser of the INFER Annual Conference in 2025 in Rome.
Andreea STOIAN
Bucharest University
Andreea STOIAN is a Full Professor in the Department of Finance, Faculty of Finance and Banking (FABBV), at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE Bucharest). She is also a PhD supervisor within the Doctoral School of Finance at ASE Bucharest. She holds a PhD in Finance from the same university, where she also majored in Finance with a specialization in Banking and Stock Market. Additionally, she holds two master’s degrees: one in Finance and Banking (DOFIN) and another in English Communication for Teaching and Economic Research.
Since 2020, she has served as a member of the FABBV Council and, since 2024, as a member of the Council of the Doctoral School of Finance. Since 2012, she has been the Director of the Center for Financial and Monetary Research (CEFIMO) within FABBV.
Her international academic experience includes visiting research positions at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (CES), Université Libre de Bruxelles (DULBEA), and Universidade do Porto (FEP), as well as Erasmus lectureships at the University of Poitiers, the University of Bordeaux, the University of Orléans, and Tallinn University of Technology. She has also been an associate member of the Monetary Research Center at the University of National and World Economy since 2015.
She has published in journals such as Finance Research Letters, Applied Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, Eastern European Economics, Empirica, Applied Economics Quarterly, Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, and Managerial Finance. She has also contributed to edited volumes published by Palgrave Macmillan and Routledge.
Andreea Stoian has been an active member of INFER since 2009. She organized two INFER workshops: one on Finance and Fiscal Policy (2018) and another on Economic Crisis and Economic Growth (2013).
Corentin Roussel
University of Strasbourg
He is an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management (FSEG) of the University of Strasbourg, where he conducts research in Economics at BETA (UMR CNRS), University of Strasbourg.
His research focuses on quantitative macroeconomics, banking regulation, and climate change. He specializes in the quantitative analysis of European banking regulations using Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models and Agent-Based Models (ABM). His postdoctoral research examined the challenges posed by new European banking regulations in the context of the green transition.
Prior to his postdoctoral appointment, he served as a contractual Assistant Professor at the University of Strasbourg. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bordeaux and a Master’s degree in Monetary and Financial Economics from the University Paris-Dauphine PSL.
HONORARY CHAIRS
HONORARY CHAIRS
Jan Van Hove, KBC Bank & Verzekering and UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN (KU LEUVEN)
HONORARY CHAIRS
Christian Richter, Hertfordshire University in Egypt-Global Academic Foundation
MICHAEL STIERLE, EUROPEAN COMmISSION
CAMÉLIA TURCU, University of Orléans – LEO
honorary INFER MEMBERS
Jan Van Hove
Christian Richter
Michael Stierle
Ulrike Stierle Von Schutz
Elias Soukiazis
Makram Elshagi
David Duffy
Edward Shinnick
Pedro Cerqueira
Camelia Turcu
Cristina Badarau
Helena Sanz
Christian Oberst
António Afonso