Rafael Granell, PhD in Economics and Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Valencia. He is the Director of the Public Economic Evaluation research group (EvalPub) and co-director of the Masters Degree on Political Economy and Public Economics. He is a member of the Chair of Regional Taxation and of the Commission for the Study of Tax Reform in the Valencian Region and a researcher at RIFDE. His area of ​​research focuses on Public Economics, highlighting the following lines: economics of taxation, regional economics, fiscal federalism, poverty and inequality, economics of education and public economic evaluation. He has published numerous articles in scientific journals, such as Review of Economics of the Household, Service Industries Journal, Ageing & Society, Education Economics, Journal of Regional Research and Review of Public Economics. He has been a researcher in projects and contracts with several entities such as Spanish Social Security, Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies, Generalitat Valenciana, IVIE and La Caixa Foundation.

Mauro Mediavilla is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Valencia. He is also a research associate at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), the European Foundation for Society and Education, and the Public Economic Evaluation Research Group (EVALPUB). He holds a PhD in Economics (2011) and was awarded the José Luis Moreno Becerra Prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of Economics of Education (2013).

He currently serves as the vice-president of the Association for the Economics of Education (AEDE). His main research interests focus on the determinants of academic achievement and the evaluation of public policies in education.

In 2025, he has served as a consultant for UNESCO (PEER - Spain). He has also acted as a consultant for the UNESCO Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, and as an advisor to the Prometheus Program of the Government of Ecuador (2014–2015), as well as to the Spending Review project (European Commission) for Spain, conducted by the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) (2018–2019).

Additionally, he was a member of the expert committee for the scholarship system review in Spain, advising the Save the Children Foundation. He has undertaken research stays at several prestigious universities and research centres in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ecuador, Latvia, Serbia, and Romania.

Since 2005, he has participated continuously in numerous competitive research projects at both the national and regional levels. He has authored over 70 publications, including articles in indexed journals, books, and book chapters.

Nerea Gómez is an Assistant Professor in the Applied Economics Department of the University of Valencia. She has a PhD in Statistics from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Cum Laude) with international mention (London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom). Her doctoral thesis was awarded the 1st Youth Chair prize for the best doctoral thesis on youth issues in Spain.

Previously, she studied the Degree in Economics (UV and Universität Heidelberg) being awarded by the Ministry of Universities with the National End of Degree Award for University Education in the field of Social Sciences. She then completed the Master's Degree in Applied Economics (Universidad de Alicante) and the Master's Degree in Teacher Training (UNED).

She is a member of the Public Economic Evaluation research group (EvalPub) and of the Cátedra of Autonomous Taxation. Her main areas of research are the Economics of Education and applied macroeconomics, highlighting the following lines: determinants of academic performance, use of ICT in the educational field and application of statistical techniques for the evaluation of the economic and social effects of policies. macroeconomics. She has published articles in different scientific journals (JCR), including Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Economic Systems, Hacienda Pública Española and Revista de Educación.

She has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the UK and a visiting professor at the University of Palermo (Italy).  Likewise, she has been a researcher in projects and contracts with various entities such as the Sociological Research Center, the Banco Sabadell Foundation, the Alternativas Foundation and the European Commission.