About me

I am an Economist and Artist who is passionate about studying, teaching, and singing. I was born in Venezuela and grew up in a small town in the countryside of Portugal called Castelo Branco. I moved to Lisbon in 2004 and have been living here ever since.

I have a Master’s Degree in Economics, and I am pursuing a PhD in the same field. I worked for 12 years as the director of Montes Claros, a university residence in Lisbon. Recently, I was appointed financial co-director of Opus Dei in Portugal, assisting the regional vicar with financial and economic matters. My main responsibilities include the preparation and control of the institutional budget; the preparation of economic and financial studies to support decision-making; the monitoring of the economic sustainability of formation and social service projects in which the Prelature is a partner; and the promotion of the values of the Catholic Church social teaching. Opus Dei is a Catholic organization to which I have belonged since 2005. In addition, I am an Invited Teaching Assistant in Economics at the Católica-Lisbon School of Business, as well as at the ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon.

I am also a lyric baritone — executive director of the quartet 4 Voices and a member of the Lisbon Chamber Choir. More about my music →

Resumè

Research

Research Interests

• Macroeconomics
• Income and Wealth Distribution
• Growth
• Economic History

Job Market Paper

Other research

“Reassessing the Role of Capital in the Dynamics of the Labor Share” Working paper Slides
How sectoral differences in the capital-output elasticity can act as a countervailing force to the labor-share decline, in a two-sector growth model with investment-embodied technical change.

“Luxury Goods Externalities, Taxation, and Endogenous Business Cycles” 2012
Consumption externalities and good-specific taxation as sources of — and remedies for — endogenous business-cycle indeterminacy in a two-sector OLG model.

Teaching

Currently teaching

Econometrics 2025-26
Católica-Lisbon SBE · Instructor: Pedro Raposo · International and National Undergraduates in Economics

Education

PhD in Economics candidate (2025–expected)
ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon

MSc in Economics (2012)
Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics

BSc in Economics (2007)
Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics

Skills

Programming, Design & Publishing

Languages

English Spanish