Marta Reynal-Querol is an ICREA Research Professor at the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Research Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics and director of IPEG. She is also an Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics, and Director of the Master in Economics at UPF since 2012. She is a Research Fellow at the CEPR, a Research Fellow at the CEsifo, a Full Member at the EUDN and a Fellow of the EEA. Marta was a member of the Council of the European Economic Association between 2011 and 2015, and is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and in the past of the European Journal of Political Economy. She won an ERCAdvanced grant in 2022, and ERC-Consolidator grant in 2014 and an ERC-Starting grant in the first call of the European Research Council in 2007. She is “Premi Jaume I Economía 2022”. In 2011, Marta won the Banco Herrero prize awarded annually to a Spanish Social Scientist under 40 years old. She worked at the World Bank between 2001 and 2005. She holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Master with Honors from UPF. She has been published in the American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution, among others.