Biography

Inácio F. Araújo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Economics, University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is also a Researcher at the "Núcleo de Economia Regional e Urbana da USP - NEREUS" (Regional and Urban Economics Lab), and a Associate Researcher at the Laboratório de Análises Territoriais e Setoriais. 

Inácio F. Araújo held a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he taught between July 2021 and June 2022. Previously, he held a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil (2018).

Inácio F. Araújo (1988) received his B.A. in Economics from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, in 2011. He obtained his MSc in Economics (2014) from the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. He defended his doctoral dissertations (2018) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Regional Research Institute (RRI) at West Virginia University (WVU), United States (2016-2017).

Professor Inácio is a member of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA), Regional Science Association International (RSAI), and Brazilian Regional Science Association (ABER). 

He served on the editorial board (2018-2021), as an Assistant to the Editors, of the "Revista Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos" (Brazilian Review of Regional and Urban Studies), the official publication of the "Associação Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos" (Brazilian Regional Science Association - Brazilian Section of the RSAI - Regional Science Association International).

Inácio’s research fields are regional economics and applied economics. His most recent work is focused on the interplay between regional and industrial interdependence and on the analysis of value chains. His research interests lie in impact assessment using methodologies in both computable general equilibrium and input-output modeling.