Ramon Xifré

Ramon Xifré is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Finance, IQS School of Management - Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). He is also Policy Research Fellow in the Public-Private Sector Research Center at IESE Business School. He is mainly interested in the competitiveness of the Catalan, Spanish and EU economies and the structural reform in related policy areas like business environment, internationalization, R&D&I and industrial policy. On these topics he has led and participated in several research projects funded by public and private organizations and he has published academic articles and commissioned reports. He is a regular contributor to the Spanish economic and social think tank FUNCAS and he is member of the 100 Experts Panel of the COTEC Foundation for Innovation. Previously, at ESCI-UPF he was Associate Professor (2004-2024) and Research Director (2015-2023). From January 2009 to December 2011, on leave from the university, he served as Senior Economic Policy Advisor at the Spanish Prime Minister Economic Bureau. He holds a BSc Economics and Business from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, MSc Economics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics, was “Marie Curie” Fellow at the University of Munich (LMU) and he received his Economics PhD from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.