Former PhD student appointed as Portuguese Economics Minister

We are delighted to announce that our former PhD student, Manuel Cabral, has been appointed Economics Minister in the new Government in Portugal.  Manuel completed his PhD in Economics at Nottingham in 2004, on Topic Determinants of Horizontal and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade in European Trade, supervised by Professors Rod Falvey and Chris Milner. Since 2004 he has been Professor of Economics at Minho University until his appointment this year as Economics Minister. Our congratulations go to Manuel on his new appointment.

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