Joaquim Oliveira Martins

Head of the Regional Competitiveness and Governance Division at Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

Joaquim Oliveira Martins is the Head of the Regional Competitiveness and Governance Division at the OECD. He was the former Head of the Structural Economic Statistics Division, focusing on Trade & Globalisation indicators, Productivity measurement and Business statistics. Previously, he was Senior Economist at the Economics Department heading projects on the Economics of Education, Ageing and Growth, and Health Systems. He was also Head of Desk for emerging markets, where he was in charge of the first Economic Surveys of Brazil, Chile and several transition countries. Other OECD projects include monographs on Competition, Regulation and Performance and Policy Response to the Threat of Global Warming. He is lecturer at University of Paris-Dauphine and Sciences Po, Paris. He holds a PhD in Economics from University of Paris-I, Pantheon-Sorbonne.