Francisco Nunes

Biography

Francisco Nunes is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at ISEG/University of Lisbon, in the scientific area of Public Economics and Welfare. With a PhD in Economics, his research interests lie in the area of Welfare Economics, Poverty and Social Inequalities, Public Economy and Finance, Microeconomics, Portuguese and European Social Policy and Comparative Analysis of Welfare Systems.

He has co-authored articles in some international journals, such as the Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Income Distribution, Journal of Socio-Economics, among others.

Responsible for the Economics 1 course, common to ISEG's Economics and MAEG degrees, and the Seminar of Economics, as well as being part of the Economics and Public Finance teaching team. He has supervised and argued several master's theses, especially in the master's degree in Economics and Public Policy, among others. He is a researcher at UECE (Complexity and Economic Studies Unit), member of the IPP – Institute of Public Policy, and is co-organizer of some international conferences.

He was president of the ISEG Pedagogical Council and is a member of the ISEG Cultural Commission. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Economics, the Coordination of the Degree in Economics and the Coordination of the Master's in Economics and Public Policies.