Dr. M. Carmen Delgado, is Head of Department of Economics and Associate Professor of Economics at University Loyola Andalucía. She obtained the B.S. in Economics (2009) from University of Granada (Spain), Master in Economics and Public Policy (2010) and Ph. D in Economics (2013) from University Pablo de Olavide of Seville (Spain). The topic of her dissertation was «Estimación del Impacto de los Fondos Europeos en Andalucía a través de Modelos de Equilibrio General: 2000-2020», which was Extraordinary Doctorate Awards from University Pablo de Olavide of Seville 2012-2013.

She belongs to the Executive Committee of the Spanish and Andalusian Regional Science being director of the editorial board of the blog “La Riqueza de las Regiones”. In addition, she is researcher group in Applied and Computational Macroeconomics (Universidad Loyola Andalucía) and CLIMAMODEL SEJ-511 (research group in Multisectoral Models Applied for Climate Change).

She has been researcher at European Commission (Joint Research Centre -Institute for Prospective Technological Studies) (2012). Moreover, she has been also Visiting Research Scholar of University of Strathclyde of Glasgow and El Colegio de México.