About

Antonio de Lecea is a senior advisor and academic in international economics and policy. He has served as international senior manager and diplomat over thirty-years in European Union’s policy-making and global economic and financial relations, based in Europe, the US, and Asia.

He is the co-author of Le Capitalisme contre les inégalités, published in March 2022 by P.U.F., a multidisciplinary assessment of inequalities and potential remedies simultaneously improving efficiency, equity, and stability.

His experience includes coordinating European positions in global fora to shape the international response to the global financial crisis and the reform of global financial institutions. He also advanced macroeconomic relations between Europe and strategic partner countries, and economic public diplomacy in the US during the European sovereign debt crisis.

As a manager, de Lecea steered EU pro-growth policy reforms and strategic improvements in compliance and budgetary management in the EU’s public service.

A. de Lecea holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Economics, and a tenured Associate Professorship in Applied Economics and Public Finance. He has been a guest lecturer and keynote speaker at leading universities in the US (Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton, Georgetown, New York U., Cornell, among others, and Asia (National University of Singapore).

He lectures International trade political economy and governance, and international taxation. Other interests are 1) the interaction of Europe, the US, and Asia in the changing global economic governance; 2) the interaction of competition, regulation, and taxation policies for sustainable capitalism, 3) corporate citizenship and ESG, and 4) innovation in financial services and government to support inclusive growth.

Besides English, Spanish, and French he is fluent in Italian and understands Portuguese.

  • 2023 - Prix Turgot to the best book in French on financial economics

    2022 - Prix Louis Marin of the Institut de France’s Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.

  • International Institute of Public Finance

    Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)