Oriol Amat is the Rector of

Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalo ...

in Barcelona. He is also Full Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting at the same university since 2001.

Academic background and university management

He studied at

Autonomous University of Barcelona The Autonomous University of Barcelona ( ca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; , es, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; UAB), is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. ...

(PhD in Business Administration and Bachelor’s degree in the same speciality), at

ESADE Esade (Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses) is a prestigious international private educational institution based in Barcelona, Spain. Esade runs two schools of the university, Esade Business School and Esade Law School, as well ...

(Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and MBA) and at the

Stockholm School of Economics The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE; sv, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, HHS) is a private business school located in city district Vasastaden in the central part of Stockholm, Sweden. SSE offers BSc, MSc and MBA programs, along with ...

(International Teachers Programme). He has spent time at various reference centres, such as Linkoping University (Sweden),

Massey University Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 students, 13,796 of whom are extramural or ...

(New Zealand),

Université de Montpellier The University of Montpellier (french: Université de Montpellier) is a public research university located in Montpellier, in south-east of France. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the oldest universities in the wor ...

(France) and

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(Chile). As a professor at UPF since 1992, he has always been interested in the four main dimensions of academic life: research, knowledge transfer, teaching and management. His lines of research include the analysis of the success factors of organizations and the ethical aspects of finance. He has directed more than fifteen theses and is the author of scientific articles and more than forty books, including ''Informe anual de l’empresa catalana'' nnual Report of the Catalan companies(2020), L’Ampolla mig plena: ''Aprendre de les crisis i dels que ho fan millor'' he half-full bottle: Learning from crises and from those who made it better(2020), ''Detecting accounting fraud before it's too late'' (2019), ''Renda Bàsica Universal: Anàlisi d’una proposta disruptiva'' niversal Basic Income: Analysis of a disruptive proposal(2019), ''Valoració i compravenda d’empreses'' aluation and sale of companies(2018). Some of his books have been translated into several languages (French, English, Portuguese…). He also collaborates and is a member of the editorial board of several international scientific publications. In the field of management, he has held various positions. At UPF, he has been dean of the UPF Barcelona School of Management (2018-2021), director of the Department of Economics and Business (2003-2005), vice-rector for Economics, Information Systems and Services (1997-2001) and, specifically in the teaching field, he was director of the Centre for Teaching Quality and Innovation (2006-2011)

Other activities

From the beginning of his professional career, he has actively collaborated with social institutions. He is dean of th
College of Economists of Catalonia
a member of the advisory board of th
Barcelona Chamber of Commerce
an
PIMEC
and member of the Catalonia 2022 working group, which designs the post-Covid strategy. He is also member of the Spanish Sustainable Finance Academic Forum. He has been the founder and president of th
Catalan Accounting and Management Association
(2014-2018), member of the

Parliament of Catalonia The Parliament of Catalonia ( ca, Parlament de Catalunya, ; es, Parlamento de Cataluña; oc, Parlament de Catalonha) is the unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. The Parliament is currently made up of 135 mem ...

(2015-2017), member of the Advisory Board for the Reactivation and Growth of Catalonia (2011-2015) and Director of th
National Securities Market Commission
(2011-2015), among others.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Amat, Oriol Living people 1957 births People from Barcelona Economists from Catalonia 21st-century Spanish economists Pompeu Fabra University faculty Academic journal editors