Alfredo Marvão Pereira was born in March 24, 1956, in Lisbon, Portugal. His major area of research is Economics with particular interests in the fields of public finance and development economics. His current research activities focus on social security reform and infrastructure and economic development. He is currently the Thomas Arthur Vaughn Professor of Economics with the Department of Economics of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.  Before completing his M.A.(1986), and Ph.D. in Economics (1988) at Stanford University, he received Bacharelato (1976) and Licenciatura (1978) degrees in Economics from the Technical University of Lisbon.

He went to the US in 1982 as a graduate student under the Fulbright Program to work on his Ph.D. in Economics with the full support of the Department of Economics of the New University of Lisbon. In particular, professors Alfredo de Sousa, Diogo Lucena, António Borges and Jorge Braga de Macedo where instrumental in his going to the US. His financial support came from the Fulbright Program, The New University of Lisbon, and Stanford University.

Alfredo Marvão Pereira has published 60 articles in refereed journal and he has currently about 15 working papers under way. In addition he has published six books on technical issues all of them relating to economic policy issues in Portugal.

Since his arrival in USA he moved from Stanford University to UC San Diego and then to The College of William and Mary following this course: 

Thomas Arthur Vaughn Jr. Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, The College of William and Mary, Sept 2001-present.
Professor, Department of Economics, The College of William and Mary, Sept 1995-Aug 2001.

-Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UC San Diego, July 1987-Aug 1995 (moved due to an offer of a promotion to Full Professor - skipping over the level of associate - and substantially better financial conditions)

-Instructor, Department of Economics, Stanford University, Sept 1985-July 1987 (moved due to a permanent position upon completion of Ph.D.)

In addition, to his regular academic positions, he has served as consultant/advisor for the Commission of the European Communities, the European Central Bank, the World Bank, the Bank of Portugal and the Portuguese Ministry of Finance.

Alfredo Marvão Pereira is an independent researcher with two projects under way as the principal investigator. He is currently supervising two Ph.D. students and has three other researchers directly under his supervision.

As objective he wants to apply modern economic thought to relevant economic policy issues, in particular of relevance for the Portuguese economy. As scientific dream he would like one day to publish his collected works applied to the Portuguese case.

He is mostly known as an applied economist who uses top modern theoretical, econometric and numerical techniques to analyze real life public finance and development issues. «The common denominator of my work is the focus on the intertemporal or dynamic nature of the economic issues. Furthermore, I have done a very large number of research papers on Portuguese economic issues», Marvão Pereira says.

In his memory there’s a special coin to the promotion to Full Professor from Assistant Professor under the age of 40 years old, an highly unusual occurrence both in terms of skipping the associate step and the age of promotion. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Review of International Economics and the Portuguese Economics Journal.

Alfredo Marvão Pereira was already invited to return to Portugal, first formally right after the completion of his doctoral work: «I did not accept because I did not feel that I would be able to pursue my research career in a manner that would be internationally recognized if I were to return to Portugal. In more recent years I was several times approached informally but the contacts never went too far both because of my not being available at the moment and the difficulties with the way the academic careers are set up in Portugal».

Consulting Experience

Institute for Development Studies, Portugal, March 2005-present

Portuguese-American Foundation, Jan 2001-present.
Research Department, Ministry of Finance, Portugal, Jan 1999-Dec 2001, Summer 2002, Summer 2003.

European Central Bank, March 2001-Dec 2001, Sept 2002-March 2003.
Ministry of Planning, Portugal, Jan 1999-Dec 2000.
Forum of Business Administrators, Portugal, Jan 1998-Dec 1998.
Research Department, Bank of Portugal, June 1998-Aug 1998.
Directorate General for Regional Development, Portugal, Sept 1997-Dec 1997.
Research Department, Ministry of Finance, Portugal, May 1997-Dec 1997.
Research Department, Bank of Portugal, April 1997-Sept 1997.
Research Department, Ministry of Finance, Portugal, Sept 1996-Dec 1996.
Forum of Business Administrators, Portugal, Nov 1995-Dec 1996.
Directorate General for Regional Development, Portugal, Jan 1996-Dec 1996.
Research Department, Bank of Portugal, March 1995, Jan 1996-Dec 1996.
Public Economics Division, The World Bank, Sept 1994-Dec 1994 DG-XVI.
Commission of European Communities, Belgium, Dec. 1993-Dec 1994.
Research Department, Ministry of Finance, Portugal, Jan 1990-Dec 1993
DG-XXII, Commission of European Communities, Belgium, Jan 1991-Dec 1992.
Secretariat of State for Fiscal Affairs, Portugal, Jan 1989-Dec 1990.
Secretariat of State for Economic Development, Portugal, Sept 1989-April 1990