Business Address:
European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES)
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50. CP 114/04
B-1050 Brussels – Belgium
Contact: Office Phone:32 2 650 4319
e-mail: aestache@ulb.ac.be
Education:
- Ph.D. in Economics (1995) (Focus on Regulation/IO/Public Economics), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- MA in Economics (1987), (Focus on International Economics and Public Economics), University of Maryland, USA
- Licence en Sciences Economiques (B.A. in Economics) (1980), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Languages:
- Fluent in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish
- Passive knowledge of Dutch, German and Italian
Personal Data: Born in Liege (Belgium), March 20, 1957; one child (born in 1988)
Current Positions
- Professor of Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Van Ommeslaghe Chair, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Research Fellow, European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Brussels
- Research Fellow, Center for Economic Policy Research, London
Fields of expertise
- Public finance (including revenue and expenditure design)
- Design of public procurement processes in infrastructure
- Public-private partnerships designs
- Reforms, pricing and regulation of infrastructure services
- Public and private sector performance monitoring and benchmarking
- Decentralization, provincial and municipal management and reform
- Environmental management
- Macroeconomic and fiscal performance evaluation
Previous Professional Experiences
- 1982-2007: The World Bank, last position: Chief Economist for the Sustainable Development Vice Presidency (formally Infrastructure) and Senior Economic Advisor for the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Vice Presidency
- 1981-1982: International Monetary Fund, Institute, Lecturer in Econometrics and Macroeconomic Financial Programming
- 1980-1981: DULBEA, Economics Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles: Researcher and co-manager of a project on corporate financial modeling
Other professional activities:
- Member of the FORESIGHT commission of the Foundation Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (The Belgian National Science Foundation)
- Member of the research advisory board the infrastructure economics thematic group of the Fundacion de Estudios de Economia Aplicada (Fedea), Madrid, Spain (2008-2010)
- Member of the Advisory Board for: Journal of Network Industries (2003-2006), Louvain Economic Review (2007-now), Utilities Policy (2003-now), World Bank Economic Review (2000-2004)
- Reviewer for the Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Economic Journal, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Public Finance Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Review of Industrial Organization, Review of Network Industries, Revue Française d’Economie, Utilities Policy, World Bank Economic Review, World Bank Research Observer, World Development
- Member of the Research Advisory Board of the World Bank Research Program (2003-2008)
