CURRICULUM VITAE XAVIER SALA-i-MARTIN December 2016 Address: Department of Economics Columbia University 420 West 118 Street, #1005 New York, NY 10027 Fax: 1 212 854 8059 E-mail:
[email protected] Home Page: http://www.salaimartin.com PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS. • Columbia University in New York, Jerome and Matthew Grossman Professor of Development Economics, 2008-present. Professor of Economics, 1996-2008. • World Economic Forum (Davos), Chief Economic Advisor 2006-present, and author of the Global Competitiveness Index (used by the WEF in its Global Competitiveness Report since 2004) and Trustee for the Global Agenda on Economic Growth and Social Inclusion (2015-present). Forum fellow since 2001. • UMBELE Foundation, a Non-Profit and Non-Government Organization dedicated to help citizens of Africa (www.umbele.org), President and Founder, 2004- present • National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA. Research Associate, 1991-present. • Fundació Catalunya Oberta. Patron, 2000-present • Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Professor Visitant, summers 1994- present Past Positions • Futbol Club Barcelona 2004-2010, Treasurer and member of the board of directors. Formerly, president of the “Comissió Econòmica Estatutària” (Managament and Statutory Commission), and president of the Club during the electoral process, July-August 2006. • Telefonica, Member of the Catalunya Board, 2004-2016 • International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., Consultant, 1993-2007 • The World Bank, Consultant, 1996-1998 and 2001 • UNESPA (Spanish Association of Insurance Companies), Member of the Advisory Board, 2008-2010 • Harvard University, Visiting Professor of Economics, 2003-2004. • Yale University, Department of Economics. Associate Professor, 1993-1996 (previously Assistant Professor from 1990 to 1993). • Center for European Policy Research (CEPR), London, UK.