Eduardo Amaral Haddad is Full Professor at the Department of Economics since 2008 at the University of São Paulo, Brazil and is the Director of Research of FIPE, a research foundation at the same University since October 2005. Prof. Haddad also holds a position as Adjunct Associate Professor at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) since January 1998 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author of the book “Regional Inequality and Structural Changes: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience” (Ashgate, 1999), and has published on regional and interregional input-output analysis, general equilibrium modeling, and various aspects of regional economic development in Brazil, in both national and international journals; he has also contributed with chapters in international books in the fields of regional science and economic development. Prof. Haddad has also acted as a consultant for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, UNDP, OECD, the Joint Africa Institute, and many other public and private organizations, national and international.
