Nuno Valério

Biography

Mini CV

Nuno Valério graduated in Economics at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management in 1975. During his undergraduate years he had already started to research in economic and social history. He went on in this path since then (and intends to keep in it in the future). He obtained his Ph. D. in Economics at the Technical University of Lisbon in 1982 and became full professor in the same university in 1989.

Nuno’s research focused mainly in two fields: Portuguese history in an Iberian, European and World context, and the theory of historical evolution.

In the first field, he coordinated research projects and published on public finance, monetary evolution, banking evolution, overall economic performance, regional history (with special focus on Trás-os-Montes), urban history (with special focus on Lisbon), colonial history (with special focus on Angola) and business history (with special focus on the Bank of Portugal). He edited the collection of Portuguese Historical Statistics published by Statistics Portugal in 2001. He also coordinated research projects and publications on the history of the Technical University of Lisbon and the Lisbon School of Economics and Management.

In the second field, he developed analyses of globalization (with special focus on the evolution of the Mediterranean world) and a model of economic development in the very long term. He also dealt with central banking (with special focus on the topics of independence and international cooperation).

He published several textbooks on Portuguese and global economic history, European integration, the history of economic thought and ethics.

Meanwhile, he chaired the Direction Board of School of Economics and Management of the Technical University of Lisbon between 1987 and 1988, the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History between 1985 and 1994 and the Portuguese Association of History of International Relations between 1999 and 2011, co-chaired the ESTER network for Ph. D. seminars in Economic and Social History between 1996 and 2001, and was editor of the review Estudos de Economia between 1994 and 1996 and co-editor of the review Revista de História Económica e Social between 2001 and 2004.