Ferran Sancho to be inaugurated as UAB's new rector

On 22 June at 10 am, Ferran Sancho will be inaugurated as UAB's new rector at the conference hall (Sala d'actes) of the Rectorate building. The event will be transmitted live.

18/06/2012

Ferran Sancho, chair professor of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis, was elected rector of the UAB in the elections which took place in May.

Born in 1953, he received his degree in Economic and Business Sciences from UAB and went on to earn his master's degree at UC Berkeley. In 1983, he defended his doctoral thesis at UAB. In 1992, he was elected chair professor in Economic Analysis.

At UAB, Dr Sancho lectures on microeconomics and in quantitative economic methods. He has published the text 100 Problemas resueltos de estadística básica para economía y empresa, as part of UAB's Materials series.

In research he specialises in impositive and environmental fiscal policies, in the development of computational models and in interindustrial analysis.

Dr Sancho has been Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies (1983-85), coordinator of doctoral programmes (1994-96), Vice Rector for Research (1998-99), Vice Rector for Lecturing Staff (1999-2002), Department Director (2004-10) and member of several committees. He also has worked at the National Quality Assessment and Accreditation Agency (ANECA) and the Agency for Quality of the Catalan University System (AQU).