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Ana Fontoura Gouveia is an Invited Assistant Professor (Adjunct) in Business & Economics at Universidade Nova de Lisboa’s Nova School of Business and Economics, where she teaches Public Finance. She earned her PhD in Economics from Nova SBE in 2015, with a dissertation on the political economy of structural reforms, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the same institution in 2004. As a PhD student, she was a visiting researcher at Toulouse School of Economics and University of Liège from 2012 to 2013.
Her professional career encompasses academia, central banking, and high-level government positions. Since 2024, she has served as Head of Sustainability at Banco de Portugal. Previously, she was Secretary of State for Energy and Climate of Portugal from 2023 to 2024, Principal Economic Advisor at the Cabinet of the Prime Minister from 2019 to 2022, and worked in Banco de Portugal’s Economics and Research Department from 2018 to 2019. Earlier roles include positions at the Portuguese Ministry of Finance and Ministry for the Economy from 2015 to 2019, the European Central Bank from 2008 to 2014, and Banco de Portugal from 2004 to 2008. She has represented Portugal in international bodies such as the EU Energy Council of Ministers, International Energy Agency, COP28, and technical working groups of the OECD, European Commission, and European System of Central Banks on structural policies.
Gouveia’s research specializations include public policy, public economics, political economy, productivity, and structural reforms. Notable publications are “Productivity, Zombie Firms and Exit Barriers in Portugal” (2020, with Christian Osterhold, International Productivity Monitor), “Product markets' deregulation: a more productive, more efficient and more resilient economy?” (2019, with Gustavo Monteiro and Silvia Fonte Santa, Hacienda Pública Española), “Political support for reforms of the pension system: two experiments” (2017, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance), “The impact of structural reforms on productivity: the role of the distance to the technological frontier” (2017, OECD Productivity Working Paper, with Sílvia Santos and Inês Gonçalves), and “Completing the economic and monetary union: What economic and fiscal governance?” (2018, book chapter).