Luis Vasconcelos is a visiting professor at Nova School of Business and Economics and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Essex. He holds a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University and a Licenciatura in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His main areas of research are Contract Theory, Organization Theory and Industrial Organization. His research has been published in journals such as the Rand Journal of Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, American Economic Journal, Review of Finance, and the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, among others. 

Current research interests include: contract theory, organization theory and industrial organization.