Professor Catarina Figueira
Professor of Applied Economics and Policy
Catarina specialises in working with organisations to improve performance and develop corporate governance that ensures their continued success.
Expertise
- Financial modelling
- Organisational performance
- Regulatory change
- Corporate governance
- The value of board diversity
- Cosmopolitanism
- Entrepreneurship
- Dynamics of housing markets
Experience
Catarina works with clients to improve the performance of their organisations, with particular expertise in the application of financial modelling, the effects of regulatory change, the importance of cosmopolitanism in fostering entrepreneurship, and the value of board diversity.
As head of the Economics and Banking group, and as a former scholar at the European Parliament having worked at the Directorate General for Research, Catarina is regularly called upon to speak at key international conferences. Organisations that have benefitted from her work include international organisations in the public and private sector, charities, and Government departments.
