Xavier Vives to help decide the future of the ERC
Xavier Vives, professor of economics and financial management at the University of Navarra, Spain, has been appointed as one of the seven members of the Identification Committee, which will identify the future members of the European Research Council’s governing body.
A mix of Europe’s top scientists will make up the committee, which is in charge of maintaining the ERC’s reputation for excellence. The committee will propose a list of candidates to replace the current ERC Scientific Council members in 2015, as well as maintain a pool of candidates for future appointments. Moreover, it will prepare a statement of methodology and a final report with its recommendations to be delivered to the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union by the end of October 2014.
Vives is an expert in the fields of industrial organisation and regulation, as well as the economics of information, banking and financial economics. Among other positions, he is research fellow of CESifo in Munich, and was member of its European Economic Advisory Group from 2001 to 2011, research fellow of the London Centre for Economic Policy Research. In 2008, he received an ERC Advanced Grant, and in 2011 he was appointed Special Advisor to the European Commission Vice-President responsible for Competition, Joaquín Almunia.
Vives currently holds the Abertis chair of regulation, competition and public policy and is the academic director of IESE’s Public-Private Sector Research Center.
