Luis Garicano is a Professor of Economics and Strategy, Departments of Management and of Economics, London School of Economics. He is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London and a Research Fellow with the Productivity and Innovation Programme, Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE. Professor Garicano received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in June 1998.

His research focuses on the determinants of economic performance at the firm and economy-wide levels, on the consequences of globalisation and information technology for economic growth, inequality and productivity, and on the architecture of institutions and economic systems to minimise incentive and bounded rationality problems. His research has appeared on the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies and other journals in economics. He is also a member of the Executive Board of the Ciudadanos Party in Spain and in charge of its Economic Policy.