RUI NUNO BALEIRAS Short CV

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1 RUI NUNO BALEIRAS Short CV (last update in June 2012) Born in 1963, Rui Nuno Baleiras is the Executive Member of the Portuguese Public Finance Council s Senior Board since 16 February 2012, Associate Professor (on leave) at the Economics Department of Minho University (Braga, Portugal) and member of its Economic Policies Research Centre. From 14 March 2005 to 26 October 2009, he served the 17 th constitutional Government of Portugal as Secretary of State for Regional Development. Earlier, he was Assistant Professor at the School of Economics of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Holder of a doctoral degree by this university and a postgraduate diploma in Advanced European Economic Studies by the College of Europe, in Belgium, Rui N. Baleiras is an academic economist with articles in international scientific journals and books, book editorship, knowledge transfer projects co-ordination, experience on policy advising and diversified teaching practice. His major fields of interest have been political economy, public finance, notably at the subnational layers of government, regional development economics and policy, European cohesion policy and urban economics. The consultancy activity with the Portuguese government includes the presidency of the council of ministers (assistance on European economic issues), the ministry of finance (fiscal decentralisation and European Union s financial perspectives), and the ministry of foreign affairs (proposal of a new European Union s structural fund). He advised the national association of Portuguese municipalities on the revision of the local fiscal environment and drafted a reform of the local public finance act for the President of the Republic. Several research works for private organisations and public agencies have also been co-ordinated by him. As visiting scholar (Universities of Fudan, in Shanghai/China, Coruña and Vigo, in Spain, Agostinho Neto, in Angola, and Técnica de Lisboa, Algarve, Madeira, Évora, in Portugal), Rui N. Baleiras has given scientific talks and instructed many graduate students in academic and training programmes offered by other institutions, ranging from spatial economics and policy for science-oriented students, to public finance principles for prospective senior officials of the (then) forthcoming East Timor s administration, to monetary economics courses for banking staff. His sensitivity to multicultural environments was enhanced by the teaching experience in Portugal, China, East Timor and Angola. Besides the performed political functions, civic activity comprises a number of articles and interviews on several politicoeconomic issues that have been published in the media, along with numerous interventions in public events. Education Current position Chief responsibilities as Member of the Government, from 14 March 2005 to 26 October 2009 (Secretary of State for Regional Development aid to the Ph.D in Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, Dissertation title: Political Economy in Local Governments. Graduate Diploma of Advanced European Studies in Economics, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, Executive Member of the Senior Board, Portuguese Public Finance Council, since 16 February Associate Professor, School of Economics and Business Administration, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal, since 6 April 2006; tenure since 27 October 2010; on leave since 16 February Political co-ordination of the three multi-annual, structurally-oriented financing systems of the Portuguese economy: Third Community Support Framework (CSF; 20.5 billion euros, b, of EU funding), II Cohesion Fund (CF; 3.1 b ) and National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF; 21.5 b ). Stimulation of strategically driven collective actions and place-based co-operation between private and public actors aiming at the structural improvement of the Portuguese economy. Continues on next page

2 Rui Nuno Baleiras, Short CV 2 Minister for Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development) Latest scientific publications Design and launching of the PROVERE Initiative (Programmes for the Economic Enhancement of Endogenous Resources) to foster the competitiveness of low density territories. National implementation of European territorial co-operation instruments and encouragement of Portuguese actors participation therein. Management co-ordination of public services under direct political supervision: Financial Institute for Regional Development, Regional Development and Co-ordination Commissions of North, Centre, Alentejo, Lisbon and Tagus Valley, and Algarve, Foresight, Planning and International Relations Department and Financial Controller. Co-ordination of the cohesion policy mission structures under direct political supervision: CSF and NSRF Observatories and Management Authorities of the five Regional Operational Programmes in mainland and the Technical Assistance Operational Programmes. Budget management horizontal supervision of the Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development universe of 4,000 employees and budget of 730 million in Book Regional Development Cases Exercises and Solutions, editor, May 2012, first edition, Cascais: Princípia (a few chapters in English, most in Portuguese). Author of the following chapters: The Collective Efficiency Rationale and Policy Applications in Portugal, pp ; How to Boost Competitiveness in Low Density Territories? The PROVERE Initiative Case, pp ; PROVERE: the Long Way from Dream to Work (Portuguese written chapter), pp Collective Efficiency Strategies: A Regional Development Policy Contribution for Competitiveness Enhancement, in Roberta Capello (ed.), Globalization Trends and its Challenges for Regional Development, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (forthcoming). Preliminary version with the same title: Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas, Universidade do Minho, Working Paper No. 27/2011, August Book Regional Development Cases, editor, September 2011, first edition, Cascais: Princípia (a few chapters in English, most in Portuguese). Introduction: Regional Development Economics and Policy, in Rui Nuno Baleiras (ed., 2011), Regional Development Cases, first edition, Cascais: Princípia, pp (Portuguese written). The Collective Efficiency Rationale and Policy Applications in Portugal, in Rui Nuno Baleiras (ed., 2011), Regional Development Cases, first edition, Cascais: Princípia, pp How to Boost Competitiveness in Low Density Territories? The PROVERE Initiative Case, in Rui Nuno Baleiras (ed., 2011), Regional Development Cases, first edition, Cascais: Princípia pp Citizens Voice as a Device for Political Choice, China-USA Business Review, Vol. 10, No. 4, April 2011, pp , co-authored with Ana Paula Barreira. Collective Efficiency Strategies: a Policy Instrument for the Competitiveness of Low-Density Territories, Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas, Universidade do Minho, Working Paper No. 4/2011, January Subnational Governance: Economic Legitimacy and Public Expenditure Decentralisation, in José da S. Costa and Peter Nijkamp (eds., 2009), Compêndio de Economia Regional [Readings in Regional Economics], Vol. I: Teoria, Temáticas e Políticas [Theory, Themes and Policies], first edition, Cascais: Princípia, pp e (Portuguese written). To Fragment or to Consolidate Jurisdictions: the Optimal Architecture of Government, in Economics and Management Higher Institute (ed., 2006), Ensaios de Homenagem a António Simões Lopes [Festschrift in Honour of António Simões Lopes], Lisbon: Technical University of Lisbon, pp The Local Public Sector in Border Alentejo, Papeles de Economía Española, No. 21, 2005, pp , co-authored with A. Paula Barreira (in Castilian). To Be or Not To Be in Office Again: an Empirical Test of a Local Political Business Cycle Rationale, European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 20, Issue 3, September 2004, pp , co-authored with José S. Costa. On the Likelihood and Welfare Effects of 'Stop-and-go' Policies, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2003, pp , co-authored with Vasco Santos. Behavioral and Institutional Determinants of Political Business Cycles, Public Choice, Vol.

3 Rui Nuno Baleiras, Short CV 3 104, Nos. 1 2, July 2000, pp , co-authored with Vasco Santos. Electoral Defeats and Local Political Expenditure Cycles, Economics Letters, Vol. 56, No. 2, 17 October 1997, pp Latest policy paper publications Research work in progress Teaching Applied research (major commissioned Firms, Collective Efficiency and Environment in the Portuguese Economic Development, Indústria e Ambiente, Environment, Employment and Growth File, No. 66, January/February 2011, pp (in Portuguese). The Eixo Atlântico and Regional Development Policy, Eixo Atlântico Revista da Eurorrexión Galicia-Norte de Portugal, No. 17, 2010, pp (in Portuguese). Heading for 2020: What changes in European Cohesion Policy?, in José M. Viegas and Tomaz P. Dentinho (eds., 2010), Emerging Challenges for Regional Development, Cascais: Princípia, pp (in Portuguese). Proposals for the next decade territorial co-operation, in e-newsletter of Eixo Atlântico do Noroeste Peninsular, guest article, idpag=1&mostrar=firma_invitada&idcon=fir , March 2010 (in Portuguese). Routes for the 2014/2020 Cohesion Policy, Eixo Atlântico Revista da Eurorrexión Galicia- Norte de Portugal, No. 16, Jully-December 2009, pp (in Portuguese). Measuring progress, true wealth and well-being, in European Commission, European Parliament, Club of Rome, WWF and OECD (2009), Beyond GDP: Measuring Progress, True Wealth and the Well-Being of Nations, Conference Proceedings, Conference held at the European Parliament, Brussels, 19 and 20 November 2007, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, pp Book Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development: the Office Tenure Account [Ambiente, Ordenamento do Território e Desenvolvimento Regional: Balanço da Legislatura ], 2009, Lisbon: Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development (edited with Francisco Nunes Correia, Humberto Rosa and João Ferrão; Portuguese written). Co-ordinator and co-author of Regional Development, in F. N. Correia, H. Rosa, J. Ferrão e R. N. Baleiras (eds., 2009), Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development: the Office Tenure Account, Lisbon: Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development, pp (in Portuguese). Towards cross-border co-operation renewal in Europe, in e-newsletter of Eixo Atlântico do Noroeste Peninsular, guest article, No. 4, February 2009, pp. 4 6 (In Portuguese, with Paula Fernandes). National Strategic Reference Framework for Structural and Cohesion Funds in the 2007/2013 Programming Period, Eixo Atlântico Revista da Eurorrexión Galicia-Norte de Portugal, No. 12, July-December 2007, pp (in Portuguese). Book MAOTDR: a Two-Year Account ( ), 2007, Lisbon: Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development (edited with Francisco Nunes Correia, Humberto Rosa and João Ferrão; in Portuguese). Co-ordinator and co-author of Regional Development, in F. N. Correia, H. Rosa, J. Ferrão and R. N. Baleiras (eds., 2007), MAOTDR: a Two-Year Account ( ), Lisbon: Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development, pp (in Portuguese). Municipal Finance, in Presidency of Republic (ed., 2005), Challenges for Portugal Seminars of the Presidency of Republic, Cruz Quebrada (Portugal): Casa das Letras, pp (paper) and (discussion). In Portuguese. The Economics of Multilevel Governance, textbook on fiscal decentralisation, currently under revision. It has already been accepted for publication by Edward Elgar Publishing, UK. Collective Efficiency Strategies: a Policy Instrument Proposal for the Competitiveness of Low- Density Territories, paper that puts forward an economic development policy tool based on the collective efficiency concept and endogenous place-based inputs. Elections and the Public Expenditure Mix, co-authored with Ana Paula Barreira, theoretical paper that seeks politico-economic explanations for government expenditure composition cycles. Graduate (academic and training) and undergraduate courses on Economic Policies, Public Economics, Regional and Urban Economics, Regional Development Policy, European Economy, Microeconomics and Principles of Micro and Macroeconomics. Economic Impacts Assessment of the Secondary Education School Modernisation Pro-

4 Rui Nuno Baleiras, Short CV 4 projects) Consultancy (major projects) Honours and Awards (a selection) gramme, applied research commissioned by Parque Escolar, E.P.E. to Minho University s Economic Policies Research Centre, co-authored with Francisco José Veiga, Francisco Carballo-Cruz, João Cerejeira, Miguel Lebre de Freitas, Miguel Portela and Sílvia Sousa. Executive co-ordination of the report Strategic Development Plan of Sintra s Municipality. Consultancy project commissioned by the Municipality of Sintra, co-authored with Jorge Braga de Macedo (general co-ordinator), Maria Regina Salvador, Luís Azevedo Coutinho, Joana Chorincas, João Coimbra and occasional research assistants, November 2003 through March Co-ordination of the report EXPO 98 Global Project Impacts on General Government Revenues, co-authored with Rui S. Monteiro and Ana B. Reis, commissioned by Parque EXPO 98, S.A., September 2001 through May Re-assessment work, November 2004 through March The User-payer Principle and Road Infrastructure Financing in Mainland Portugal, report commissioned by the Portuguese Socialist Party s parliamentary group, November 2004 through March Municipal Finance, report on the future of the Portuguese local finance act, commissioned by the President of the Portuguese Republic, April and May Local Administration Financing, report commissioned by the Board of the Portuguese Association of Local Governments, February and March Research project Financing Cities and Regions sponsored by the Luso-American Development Foundation, co-authored with J. Braga de Macedo and Fernando C. Gabriel, January 1997 through September The Prospective Impact of Lisbon s New Airport in the Regional and Local Economies, coauthored report with A. Nogueira Leite and Rui S. Monteiro, commissioned by NAER Novo Aeroporto de Lisboa, S.A. as part of the Environmental Incidence Studies regarding Lisbon s future airport, March to November Sintra s Socio-economic Profile, presentation commissioned by the Municipality of Sintra as part of their credit risk evaluation (Rating book) by Moody s Investors Service, 14 June Participation in the XIV Congress of the Portuguese Association of Local Governments, as local finance consultant, Tecnopolo, Funchal (Portugal), 2 and 3 April 2004; Participation in regional meetings with municipal leaders to prepare the XIV Congress of the Association, December 2003 through February Participation on Development Strategies for Timor Lorosae, training initiative for candidate senior officials to the (then) emerging East-Timorese administration, held in Dili (East Timor), organised by the Portuguese government, 23 to 28 May Local Finance: Background Paper to the 1994 State Budget Report, report commissioned by the Portuguese Ministry of Finance Minister s Office under a consultancy contract also including editorial assistance to the 1994 State Budget Report, September and October Consultant to the Portuguese Ministry of Finance (Minister s Office, Secretary of State for Treasury s Office and Economic Studies Directorate-General), January through December 1992, for the following areas: Delors II Package assistance to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Communities, January to June; Local Public Finance participation on inter-ministerial discussions about fiscal decentralisa tion and co-ordination of the national contribution to the structural theme (Local Public Finance part) of the 1992/93 OECD survey to the Portuguese economy, March to December; State Budget for 1993 contribution to both the General and the Synthesis Report, June to October. Consultant for community economic affairs to the Portuguese Secretary of State for European Integration, having designed a new European Community s Structural Fund, May to July Consultant for community economic affairs to the Portuguese Council of Ministers Presidency s Secretary of State, July 1990 to June Audience granted by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Prof. Aníbal Cavaco Silva, to receive the first sample of the Casos de Desenvolvimento Regional book, July Grande-Oficial da Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique, honorific order awarded by the President of the Portuguese Republic, Mr Jorge Sampaio, June Research grant awarded by Nova Forum Executive Education Institute, February Honorary Fellow of the Economists Association of East-Timor (ASETIL), since May 2000.

5 Rui Nuno Baleiras, Short CV 5 Winner (for Doctoral dissertation) of the National Competition of Master s Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations organised by the (Portuguese) Social and Economic Council, May Jean Monnet Professor title awarded by the Commission of the European Communities, March European Economic Association (EEA) s presidential Honour (by Prof. Agnar Sandmo) for personal performance as member of the Local Organising Committee of EEA s Fifth Annual Congress, 2 September 1990.