Staff Members

the foundation - Economy, Sustainability and welfare

  • Gustavo Nombela Department Head, Economics, Sustainability and Welfare

    Gustavo Nombela holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE, University of London) and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMF).

    He has broad research and teaching experience as tenured professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and visiting professor at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He has also been a lecturer for postgraduate courses at several universities.

     
    Between 2004 and 2007, he was advisor on the Economic Bureau of the Prime Minister.
     

     

  • David Cierco Information Society Chair

    David Cierco has been the Information Society Chair since July 2010. He is responsible for discourse in the field of information and communication technology at the IDEAS Foundation and for promoting it as a key instrument to change the production model.

    Between 2006 and 2010 he was the General Director for the Development of the Information Society at the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade reporting to the Secretary of State for Telecommunications where he was in charge of the design and implementation of the Plan Avanza which, in collaboration with the Autonomous Communities, raised more than 9,600 million euros.

    Between 2004 and 2006 he was a new technologies advisor to the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade.

    David Cierco holds a Master’s degree in Economic Analysis and Regulated Sectors from the Complutense University of Madrid (2002 -2003) and a Master’s degree specifically directed to regulated markets like that of telecommunications and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Computense University.
     

  • Reyes Maroto Illera Sennior Researcher

    Reyes Maroto holds a degree in Economics from the University of Valladolid in 1996 as well as a Masters degree in Economics and Finance from the Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) in 1998.

    She was a research assistant at the Foundation for Applied Economics (FEDEA) from 1998 to 2003, Project Manager in Research and Technical Assistance QUASAR from 2003 to 2005 and Head of the Applied and Territorial Economics at Afi-Consultores de Administraciones Públicas from 2005 to 2010. She has broad teaching experience as Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

    Currently, she is a member of the  Department of Economics and Sustainability at the Ideas Foundation where her areas of interest focus on Microeconomics, Labour market, Economic growth, Territorial and Sectoral Economics, EU Economics (Structural Funds) and Foreign Trade.

  • Mª Asunción Candela Terrasa Junior Fellow

    Mª Asunción Candela Terrasa holds a degree in Economics from the University of the Balearic Islands. She began her studies at University of Alicante and in 2006 was awarded a PhD fellowship in Economics at the Distance Learning University (UNED) in Madrid. In 2007 she was a visiting fellow at the Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada and from March to June 2008 did a short fellowship at the School of Economics in Paris. She received her Master of Advanced Studies in Optimal Indirect Taxation in July 2008.
     
    She is a member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) and her areas of interest are Public Sector Economics, Optimal Taxation, Microsimulation, Consumer Analysis and Welfare Economics.

  • Johannes von Stritzky Junior Fellow

    Johannes von Stritzky holds a degree in Political Science, Public Law and Gender Studies from the University of Hamburg, Germany and he is specialized in Equality Policies, Democratic Theory and International Organizations.
     
    A former trainee with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Madrid, he has collaborated with various research projects at the University of Hamburg and in Spain with Almenara, Estudios económicos y sociales S.L., ACODIP, Fundación Manuel Giménez Abad, Intermón-Oxfam, Real Instituto Elcano, INFOPOLIS 2000, S.L. and the Comisión Interdepartamental de Transversalidad de Género de la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia.
     
    As Junior Fellow in the Department of Economics and Sustainability he participates in the projects related to renewable energies, sustainable transport and equal opportunities. He is the coordinator of the working group on information and communication technologies (ICT).

  • Casilda Cabrerizo Junior Fellow

    Casilda Cabrerizo Sanz holds BA in Geography and History from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). After graduating, she was granted a scholarship at the University College of Dublin and later did a Master’s Degree in "Cartography, Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing" at the University of Alcalá de Henares. In 2007 she earned a Diploma of Advanced Studies in the Doctoral Program "Territory, Environment and Society" at UAM, where she is currently working on her doctoral thesis on Urban Landscaping in New Towns.
     
    For more than four years she has been part of the Applied and Territorial Economics of the Public Administration Consultants team for the International Financial Analysts (AFI) group. Since March of 2010, she has been President of the Association of Geographers of the Autonomous Community of Madrid.

  • Andrea Cameno García Administrative Assistant

    Andrea Cameno García worked for three years as an Administrative Assistant and Production Secretary for Grundy Productions, S.L. and Quartz Productions, S.L. and she has also worked as an Assistant with the Spanish Socialist Party.