Department of Economics

Adria Rius

Key information

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Roles
Department of Economics Lecturer in Economics
Qualifications
BSc (Barcelona), MSc (London), PhD (London)
Email address
ar86@soas.ac.uk

Biography

Adria Rius is a Lecturer in Economics at the SOAS Department of Economics.

Before starting his PhD, he worked as an Economist and ODI Fellow for the Somaliland Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism, and as Researcher and Policy Analyst at the ILO Green Jobs Programme. Adria has also worked as research and teaching assistant at UCL and at the University of Barcelona. 

He holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Barcelona and an MSc in Development Economics from SOAS. As part of his BSc, he also studied at the Vrije Unviersiteit Amsterdam. He conducted the first year of his PhD at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Adria’s PhD research is funded by UKRI under the ESRC programme (UBEL-DTP).

Research interests

  • Green Transition
  • Industrial Ecosystems
  • Competition
  • Industrial Restructuring
  • Network Science
  • Economic Complexity
  • Political Economy

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