Department of Economics & Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation

Adria Rius

Key information

Adria Rius Headshot (c) Mike Skelton.jpg
Roles
Department of Economics PhD Student in Economics Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Qualifications
BSc (Barcelona), MSc (London)
Email address
ar86@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
Industrial Restructuring for the Green Transition. The wind energy sector in the Basque Country and Navarre industrial ecosystem, 1990-2021.
Internal Supervisors
Professor Antonio Andreoni

Biography

Adria Rius is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the SOAS Department of Economics.

Before starting his PhD, he worked as an Economist and ODI Fellow for the Somaliland Ministry of Trade, Industry and Tourism, and as Researcher and Policy Analyst at the ILO Green Jobs Programme. Adria has also worked as research and teaching assistant at UCL and at the University of Barcelona. 

He holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Barcelona and an MSc in Development Economics from SOAS. As part of his BSc, he also studied at the Vrije Unviersiteit Amsterdam. He conducted the first year of his PhD at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Adria’s PhD research is funded by UKRI under the ESRC programme (UBEL-DTP).

Research interests

  • Green Transition
  • Industrial Ecosystems
  • Competition
  • Industrial Restructuring
  • Network Science
  • Economic Complexity
  • Political Economy

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