Biografía

Octasiano Miguel Valerio Mendoza is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods at IQS School of Management, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona. He holds a PhD and MA in International Development from Nagoya University, Japan. His research focuses on international development, economic policies, and their impact on inequality and social justice, particularly in China. He has secured multiple grants from the European Commission and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. His recent publications appear in journals like China Economic Review and Regional Studies.

 

Dr Comim holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (1998), a Postdoc from Harvard University (2012), and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge (1994), among other degrees. In his academic work, he lectured at the University of Cambridge for over 15 years and supervised over 20 doctoral theses.

Dr Comim specializes in Development Economics. He has worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Brazil and has served as a consultant to other UN agencies, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Among other current positions, the new Dean of the IQS School of Management has been the Head of the IQS Department of Ethics and Christian Thought at IQS for the past three years. He is an elected member of the Human Development and Capability Association and a Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute at Saint Edmund's College, Cambridge. In addition, he has been a Senior Advisor for the “Leaving No One Behind” Programme aligned with the UN 2030 Agenda and the coordinator of the IQS team that advised the Government of Catalonia in drafting its 2023-2026 Plan for International Cooperation.

 

Mihály Tamás Borsi is an empirical macroeconomist with expertise in economic growth & policy and applied econometrics. He is an accredited Associate Professor of Economics at Universitat Ramon Llull, IQS School of Management. He completed his PhD in Quantitative Economics at Universidad de Alicante in 2015 and held visiting positions at the central banks of Germany and Hungary as well as at Paris School of Economics. His research focuses on a wide spectrum of social and economic matters, including growth and economic convergence, poverty and inequality, and the economy of China. He has actively participated in research projects over the years and the results of his works have been disseminated at numerous conferences and published in SSCI-JCR journals, including Empirical Economics, China Economic Review, Journal of Macroeconomics, and Regional Studies.