Short Biography
Prof. Marimon is a Professor in the Economics Department of the European University Institute and previously was the Director of the Max Weber Postdoctoral Programme.
He is a member of the Expert Group on Knowledge and Growth of the European Commission, co-founder of Universitat Pompeu Fabra as Dean and Chair of Economics and Business (1990-1991), and was Secretary of State for Science and Technology in the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (2000-2002).
Prof. Marimon is first director of the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi) and of the Centre de Referència en Economia Analítica (CREA, Barcelona Economics). President of the Spanish Economic Association (2004), Research fellow of the NBER (since 1992) and the CEPR (since 1993), member of the Council of the European Economic Association (since 2000), former co-editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics (1997-2000) and Chairman of the European Commission “High Level Panel for the mid-term evaluation of the effectiveness of the New Instruments of the Framework Programme Six” (2003-2004).