Doctor in Economics and tenured university professor of the department of  Applied Economics (Political Economy Teaching Unit). He currently directs the POLAR (Policies, Actors, and Globalization) Research Group at the University of Valencia.

His areas of scientific interest are: international economic policy; economic policy evaluation; creativity in economics teaching; and art and economics.

He has participated in several competitive research projects supported by national (Ministry) and international institutions (European Union and United Nations). He has over 100 publications among articles, book and book chapters. Also, he has carried out research stays in several universities and European research centres, such as the Centre for the Study of Industrialisation Modes (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris) or the Nucleus of Research for Political Science and International Relations of Portugal, among others.

Besides, he is a screenwriter and director of the documentaries Brass Sounds (2003), La Fábrica (The Factory, 2005) and The Banquet of (Cultural) Commons (2020).

Dr. Salvador Gil Pareja has a degree and PhD in Economic and Business Sciences from the Universitat de València (Extraordinary Award in both cases) and an MSc in Economics from University College London. He has done research visits at Fedea, the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and at several Spanish universities. He is author of twenty book chapters and more than 50 articles published in prestigious journals such as European Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Review of World Economics, Review of International Economics, The World Economy or Oxford Economic Papers, among others. He was elected member of the board of directors and treasurer of the Spanish Association of Economics and International Finance (2005-2011), associate editor of the Revista de Economía Aplicada (2006-2016), coordinator of the Degree in Economics (2013-2015), head of the Department of Estructura Económica of the University of Valencia (2015-2021), and coordinator of the Double Degree in Law and Economics (since 2022). Moreover, he has participated in several teaching manuals and teaching innovation projects and he has received several recognitions and awards for his teaching.

Five selected/recent publications:

1. Esteve-Pérez, J., Gil-Pareja, S., Llorca-Vivero, R. y Paniagua, J. (2023): “Has the euro paid off? A study of the trade-induced welfare effects of the EMU”, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, forthcomming.
2. Esteve-Pérez, S., Gil-Pareja, S. y Llorca-Vivero, R. (2020): "Does the GATT/WTO promote trade? After all, Rose was right", Review of World Economics, 156 (2), 377-405.
3. Gil-Pareja, S., Llorca-Vivero, R. y Martínez-Serrano, J. A. (2014): “Do nonreciprocal preferential trade agreements increase beneficiaries’ exports?”, Journal of Development Economics, 107, págs. 291-304.
4. Gil-Pareja, S., Llorca-Vivero, R. y Martínez-Serrano, J. A. (2008): “Trade effects of monetary agreements: Evidence for OECD countries”, European Economic Review, 52, págs. 733-755.
5. Gil-Pareja, S. (2003): “Pricing to Market Behaviour in European Car Markets”, European Economic Review, 47, págs. 945-962. (Top 10 most requested articles at EER, 2003).

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.

Óscar Muñoz González és professor ajudant doctor al Departament d’Economia Aplicada de la Facultat d’Economia de la Universitat de València. La seua activitat docent se centra principalment en el Grau en Relacions Laborals i Recursos Humans. La seua trajectòria investigadora s’especialitza en l’àmbit de les cures de llarga durada (CLD), amb un enfocament en les condicions laborals de les cuidadores en l’entorn domèstic.

La seua tesi doctoral, defensada el 2021, porta per títol "Los cuidados de larga duración a personas mayores y/o en situación de dependencia en el ámbito del hogar en un contexto de crisis económica. Estudio cualitativo para el Área Metropolitana de València", i representa una aportació rellevant a l’estudi de les cures en contextos de vulnerabilitat i crisi.

Ha publicat treballs estretament relacionats amb la seua tesi en revistes destacades com Sociología del Trabajo (2022) i Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales (2021). A més, compta amb articles com:"El servicio de ayuda a domicilio en el área metropolitana de València" (Zerbitzuan, 2018), "La aplicación de la Ley de la Dependencia en el País Valenciano y su vínculo con el Estado del Bienestar: valoraciones a partir del caso del Área Metropolitana de València" (Zerbitzuan, 2016), "Los cuidados en un contexto de crisis económica. El caso del Área Metropolitana de València" (Inguruak, 2016), i"El declive de la Ley de la Dependencia. Familismo implícito y oportunidad perdida en la profesionalización de los cuidados" (Encrucijadas. Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales, 2015).

Graduated in Business Administration and Management, master's degree in Big Data and Business Intelligence and doctor in Industrial Economics from the University of Valencia. In his doctoral thesis, for which he received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award, he focused on the generation of tools and procedures to build quality datasets. He has participated in various research projects related to the generation of quality data and the proposal of socioeconomic indicators. Some examples are: “Understanding individual behavior in a dynamic context: Information, Culture and Institutions” (PID2021-128228NB-I00IP), funded by the Ministry of Economy and Innovation or “Information, context, characteristics and preferences: mediators of economic change And social. Create effective institutions and committed societies” (AICO/2021/257), funded by the Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society of the Generalitat Valenciana. As a member of the Research Group on Electoral Processes and Public Opinion (GIPEyOP) he has participated in the development of the SEA Database, the most complete database on electoral results in Spain. As director of the Research Group "Defense Economics, Cybersecurity and Protection", he has been the Principal Investigator of the project “A year of war in Ukraine: Spaniards' assessment of the conflict and its involvement in security and the economy”, funded by the Center for Sociological Research (CIS). It has participated in several contracts and transfer agreements, among which the service of identification and analysis of indicators for monitoring the economy of the Valencian Community stands out or the development of a system of functional indicators aimed at collecting, analyzing and transmitting information on the dynamics of culture at the local level.

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Biographical Note

Luz Dary Ramírez Franco holds a PhD in Rule of Law and Global Governance from the University of Salamanca and is a Permanent Lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Valencia, where she has been carrying out her teaching and research activity since 2021. Her academic career combines research, teaching, internationalisation, and university management, with a particular specialisation in economic policy, comparative analysis, governance, and circular economy. She has also been awarded a six-year research assessment period (sexenio de investigación), recognised from 2025.

Her research activity has been developed within both national and international competitive projects. She is currently a member of the research team of the project Impulsando la Gestión de Activos Inmobiliarios Públicos: un estudio multidisciplinar de ciudades españolas (2025–2029), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under the 2024 call for Knowledge Generation Projects, within the Non-Oriented Research scheme. She also participates in the European project CULT.T. Culture and Technology (2024–2026), funded by the European Commission, and was previously a member of the project MESOC: Measuring the Social Dimension of Culture (2020–2023), likewise funded by the European Commission and focused on measuring the social impact of culture. In addition, she participated in the INNOVAGEN project (2022–2024), funded by the University of Valencia, aimed at incorporating and updating the gender perspective in university teaching.

In earlier stages of her career, her research profile was consolidated through participation in R&D projects related to economic analysis, productivity, regional heterogeneity, and economic growth, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Ministry of Education and Science. This trajectory demonstrates sustained research continuity and long-standing integration into competitive research teams.

Her academic profile has been further strengthened through research and teaching stays at prestigious European and Latin American universities, including the University of Nottingham (2017), the University of Liverpool (2016), the University of Würzburg (2011), Universidad EAFIT (2023), the University of Sonora (2018–2019), and the University of Concepción (2018). These stays have contributed to consolidating an international and comparative perspective in her lines of research, as well as stable networks of academic collaboration.

In the field of teaching, she has delivered undergraduate and postgraduate courses in subjects such as applied economics, economic policy, econometrics, circular economy, the structure of tourism markets, and the analysis of socio-labour policies. Her teaching experience is complemented by specific training in teaching innovation and university pedagogy.

In academic management, since 2024 she has served as Secretary of the Coordination of the Teaching Unit in Economic Policy and has participated in several academic committees for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the Faculty of Economics. Overall, her career reflects a solid and internationalised academic profile, committed to research excellence, teaching quality, and institutional contribution.

Ángel Soler Guillén holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Valencia. From 1996 to 2019, he served as a research technician at the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (Ivie), and from 2010 to 2019, he was an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Economic Structure at the University of Valencia.

He is currently an Associate Researcher at Ivie, tenured professor in the Department of Applied Economics, and Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Valencia. He also serves as Director of the Statistical Portal on the Social Economy (CIRIECSTAT).

He has participated in several international research projects, including EUKLEMS, SPINTAN, INDICSER, and EISMEA. His main fields of specialization include economics of education, labour market analysis, migration, and the social economy.

He is the author of more than one hundred books and book chapters, as well as twenty-two articles published in national and international scientific journals.