Economist Xavier Sala-i-Martín to inaugurate new year at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies
The Faculty of Economics and Business Studies will officially inaugurate the new 2018/19 academic year with an event to be held at the conference hall on 4 October at 12:30 p.m. Economist Xavier Sala-i-Martín will give the opening lecture.
![Xavier Sala i Martin](/Imatge/856/546/xavier-sala-i-martin.jpg)
Sala-i-Martín earned his degree in Economics from the UAB and his PhD in Economics from Harvard, with a thesis entitled "On Growth and States". He is chair professor at Columbia University and has lectured at Yale and Harvard. Academically, he specialises in the study of economic growth, development economics, monetary economics, health economics, competitiveness, public economics and economic convergence.
The event will be streamed live in Aula 18, Bellaterra campus, and in the conference hall and Aula 13 of the faculty of the Sabadell campus, as well as on the UAB's YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/UABBarcelona