Marc Teignier

Marc Teignier is currently a Serra-Húnter Lecturer Professor at the University of Barcelona (Economic Theory section). Prior to that, he worked as a Professor at the University of Alicante and as a post-doc researcher at the University of the Basque Country. Marc earned his PhD in economics from The University of Chicago in June 2010 after receiving BA and MA degrees in economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). Marc teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics and his research interests include the study of the macroeconomic effects of gender inequalities and talent misallocation, as well as the determinants of structural transformation. His articles have been published at the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Human Capital, or the B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics. Marc has also worked as an external consultant for the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations.
He has worked as an external researcher for the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Together with David Cuberes, in 2016 he collaborated with the Interamerican Development Bank under the call “Gender Gaps in Science, Technology and Innovation in LAC”. David and Marc also collaborated with the International Monetary Fund, co-authoring two chapters of the book ‘Women, Work, and Economic Growth - Leveling the Playing Field’. They also worked with the World Bank in many different projects, like a background article for the World Development Report 2012, as well as different articles on the effects of gender inequality in the Balkans, the Caucasus region, Mexico, Uruguay, or Malaysia. Finally, Marc also worked for the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations during the initial stages of the Human Development Report 2012.