Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is currently professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as director of graduate studies in the Economics department; visiting professor at University of Oxford; visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia and at the Bank of Spain; advisor to the Regulation and Rule of Law Initiative of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economic Policy Research, and ADEMU (A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union).

He has held academic appointments at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, and New York Universities, among others, and was the director of the Penn Institute for Economic Research. He has been visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis, Minneapolis, Cleveland, and Atlanta; research professor at FEDEA (Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada, Spain); national fellow at the Hoover Institution; visiting scholar at the Becker-Friedman Institute of the University of Chicago; visiting scholar at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Cambridge; and distinguished visiting professor at the University of Melbourne (Australia).

He is editor of the International Economic Review and has previously served on the editorial boards of several other learned journals. He has published several dozen peer-reviewed papers in such journals as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Review of Economic Studies, and has edited and coauthored several books. His research focuses on macroeconomics, econometrics, and economic history. Among other topics, he is interested in the role of monetary and fiscal policy, the sources of economic growth, the importance of the rule of law, and the foundations of market economies.

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