Teresa Garcia-Milà i Lloveras (born in Barcelona in 1955) is a Catalan economist and university professor. She has held several academic positions at the

Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University (, ; ) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. Established in 1990 by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia and named after Pompeu Fabra, it is known for its competitiveness in resea ...

, especially as director of its associated center

Barcelona School of Economics The Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) is an institute for research and graduate education in Economics, Finance, Data Science, and the social sciences located in Barcelona, Spain. BSE research has been ranked among the top Economics Department ...

(BSE). Since June 2025, she is the president of the Cercle d'Economia. She is an expert in macroeconomics and public finance.

Career

She graduated from the

University of Barcelona The University of Barcelona (official name in ; UB), formerly also known as Central University of Barcelona (), is a public research university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was established in 1450. With 76,000 students, ...

in 1977, she got a PhD from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

in 1987. From 1985 to 1987 she was a professor at the

State University of New York The State University of New York (SUNY ) is a system of Public education, public colleges and universities in the New York (state), State of New York. It is one of the List of largest universities and university networks by enrollment, larges ...

and later at the

Autonomous University of Barcelona The Autonomous University of Barcelona (; Spanish: ; ; UAB) is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. , the university consists of 57 departments in the experimental, lif ...

between 1987 and 1990. In 1990, she moved to the

(UPF), where she has been Professor of Economics since 1995. Garcia-Milà was Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of the UPF between 1995 and 2000, Vice-Rector for Science Policy between 2009 and 2011 and Director of the Department of Economics and Business of this university from 2011 to 2012. In December 2012 she was appointed Director of the

(BSE). In addition to being a researcher, she has been a member of the board of directors of several organizations, like the Center for Research in International Economics (CREI), the Institute of Economic Analysis (IAE) of the CSIC between 1987 and 1990, president of the Spanish Economic Association (2014) and president of the Commission of Lecturers and Collaborating Professors of the Agency for the Quality of the University System of Catalonia between 2003 and 2005. In 2016, the

College of Economists of Catalonia The College of Economists of Catalonia, officially named in Catalan ''Col·legi d'Economistes de Catalunya,'' based in Barcelona, is a professional public law corporation, which in 2022 had more than 7,800 members and 1,500 related companies and of ...

named her a member of the board of directors of Repsol and has been a member of the board of directors of

Banco Sabadell Banco de Sabadell, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational financial services company headquartered in Sabadell, Catalonia. It is the 4th-largest Spanish banking group. It includes several banks, brands, subsidiaries and associated banks. It is a uni ...

and

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. Her work focuses on

macroeconomics Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. This includes regional, national, and global economies. Macroeconomists study topics such as output (econ ...

and public finance, particularly in studying the impact of public investment on

economic growth In economics, economic growth is an increase in the quantity and quality of the economic goods and Service (economics), services that a society Production (economics), produces. It can be measured as the increase in the inflation-adjusted Outp ...

, and on how different fiscal structures and models of fiscal federalism affect economic growth, resource distribution, and economic well-being. Her research has been published in ''

The Economic Journal ''The Economic Journal'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published on behalf of the Royal Economic Society by Oxford University Press. The journal was established in 1891 and publishes papers from all areas of economics.The edito ...

'', ''

The Review of Economics and Statistics ''The Review of Economics and Statistics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers applied economics, with specific relevance to the scope of econometrics. The editors-in-chief are Will Dobbie (Harvard University) and Raymond Fisman (Bos ...

'', and ''

Regional Science and Urban Economics ''Regional Science and Urban Economics'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering urban economics and microeconomics in regards to regional phenomena. It was established in 1971 as ''Regional and Urban Economics'', obtaining its curre ...

'', among others. In 2018, she received the

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for scientific and technological merit. In 2025 she was included in the ''Forbes'' list of the 100 most influential women in Catalonia.

References

Economists from Catalonia People from Barcelona 1955 births Living people University of Barcelona alumni University of Minnesota alumni {{Improve categories, date=July 2025