Miguel Cardoso Lecourtois

Dr. Miguel Cardoso Lecourtois is a Chief Economist at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor (on tenure track) at the Department of Economics of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and worked also as an Advisor to the Director General of Fiscal Planning in the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit in Mexico.
Dr. Cardoso Lecourtois holds a PhD in Economics from University of Minnesota in the U.S., and a BA in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
He has authored several publications, with some of his main areas of research being the amplification mechanisms of business cycles, the characteristics of the crisis in Spain and its regional impact, as well as the impact of public policies on the determinants of export capacity, public finance and the labor market.