Professor Javier Ortega
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Economics
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
Professor of Economics
About
I received my PhD in Economics from DELTA (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) in 1996. Among other positions, I have been Associate Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics (1998-2008) and then Senior Lecturer at City, University of London, and Head of the Economics Department in the period 2013-2017.
I joined Kingston University as Professor of Economics in January 2019, and was appointed Associate Dean for Research of the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences in January 2020 until December 2024. From October 2021 till May 2023, I served as Interim Dean of the Faculty.
I have taught a variety of courses, including Labour Economics, Macro, Micro, Economics of Organisations and Strategy, Public Economics, and Economics of Identity, Culture, and Language.
My main areas of research interest are Labour Economics and Political Economy. Currently, I am working on papers on the use of the English language in India, the stability of political party systems, and the relation between nation-building and colonisation.
I am a Visiting Senior Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics.
For my detailed CV and links to my working papers, see my personal webpage.
Qualifications
- Doctorat d'Economie, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), 1996
- MSc Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain (1992)
- BSc Economics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1991)