Ricardo A. M. R. Reis (born 1 September 1978) is a Portuguese economist who is currently the A. W. Phillips Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He works in macroeconomics, finance, and international economics and won the 2021 Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation medal awarded every two years by the European Economic Association for best economist under the age of 45. He writes a weekly op-ed for the Portuguese newspaper Expresso.

Academic career

Reis earned his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree from the London School of Economics in 1999, and his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Harvard University in 2004. He taught at Princeton University from 2004 to 2008 before moving to Columbia University as a full professor at the age of 29, one of the youngest ever in the history of the university. He is an academic advisor and visiting scholar at central banks around the world, and sits on the board of multiple institutions. Reis was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024 a Fellow of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences in 2023, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2019.

Economic contributions

Reis is known for contributing original ideas to economic science and policy debates: