Juan Manuel Rodriguez Poo has a Ph.D. in Economics and Business Administration from the Catholic University of Louvain and from the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics (Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), London School of Economics, University of Bonn and Ecole de Haut Études en Sciences Sociales (EHSS)). He has a degree in Economics and Business Administration (specializing in Quantitative Economics) from the University of the Basque Country and holds an MSc. Science in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain. In the research field, since his doctoral training, his areas of interest have been non-parametric and semi-parametric regression estimation techniques. More precisely, he is interested in the application of these techniques to the field of microeconomics, labor economics, and microstructure problems within the field of financial economics and impact analysis and evaluation. He has carried out research stays at various universities, highlighting: the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE); London School of Economics; Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST); Institute for Statistics, and Okonometrie. Humboldt University zu Berlin and the University of Ferrara and the Department of Econometrics and Statistics of the Carlos III University of Madrid. As a result of this research activity, Prof. Rodriguez Poo has made numerous publications, has directed different research projects, and has also consulted both regionally and nationally.
Regarding teaching, since 2003 he is a Professor of Econometrics, first at the University of Zaragoza and from 2005 at the University of Cantabria. Previously he was an Associate Professor at the universities of the Basque Country and Cantabria. He has also been a visiting professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2001), at the Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (2002), and the University of Geneva (2015). All the teaching activities have focused on the field of Econometrics and Statistics.
In the field of Official Statistics, in 2004 he was named the first director and founder of the Cantabrian Institute of Statistics, a body dependent on the Regional Government of Cantabria (https://www.icane.es), and from 2008 to 2011 he was also vice president of the Interterritorial Statistics Committee. Subsequently, in 2018, he was appointed president of the National Statistics Institute (INE) (https://www.ine.es), a position in which he has remained until August 2022. At the same time, he was elected president of the Partnership Group of the European Statistical System, a position which he ceased because he departed from the INE. He has recently been appointed a member of the ESGAB (European Statistical Governance Advisory Board) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/esgab/introduction).
