Dr. Conesa graduated in Economics from the Universitat de Barcelona (1991) and earned a PhD in Economics at the Universitat de Barcelona (1998) and at the University of Minnesota (1999). He most recently held the position of Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona from 2006 to 2013. In 2009 he was awarded an ICREA-Acadèmia research award. His main areas of research are macroeconomics and public finance.