Dr Francisco Torres
Visiting Senior Fellow in European Political Economy
European Institute
Tel: 020 7107 5201
Email: f.torres@lse.ac.uk
Biography
Francisco Torres is Visiting Senior Fellow in European Political Economy. He is also a Member of the Academic Steering Committee of the European Studies Centre of St Antony’s College, Oxford University. Prior to joining LSE, he was Fellow and Senior Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Research of the European University Institute, Florence, and the first Robert Schuman Fellow of the European Commission at CEPS, Brussels. He has taught mainly at the Catholic University in Lisbon (in various positions since 1983 both at the Economics Department and as director and Research Coordinator of the European Studies Centre), recently as Adjunct Professor of European Studies, but also at the National Institute for Public Administration (where he coordinated the area of European Integration and International Economics) and at the University of Aveiro (Associate Professor). He also taught (European Integration) at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, and (International Economics) at the University of Rome II (Tor Vergata), among others. He holds a Ph.D. in European Studies - European Political Economy (UCP, Lisbon), an MSc in Economics (UNL, Lisbon) and a ‘licenciatura’ also in Economics (UCP, Lisbon). He also studied Economics at the EUI, in Florence (PhD progr.), where he published 3 WPs, and holds an MA in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS. He is a Research Associate (and EU Steering Committee Member) of ECPR and EUSA’s Political Economy Section.
Research Interests
His main research interests are European integration, institutional change, economic reform within EMU and EU and global governance.
Selected Publications
His publications include various (co-)edited and co-authored books on EMU and EU governance published by: Cambridge University Press (1993, with Francesco Giavazzi); UCP Press (1996); St Martin’s Press (1998, with Jeff Frieden and Erik Jones); Nomos Verlag (2006, with Amy Verdun and Hubert Zimmermann); and Principia (2003, with Brian Ardy, Iain Begg and Waltraud Schelkle) and numerous articles in academic journals, most recently in Intereconomics, South European Society and Politics and Journal of European Integration, and chapters in the recent handbooks on European Integration by Oxford University Press (2012), Palgrave (2013) and Routledge (2014).