João Valle e Azevedo is Head of the Monetary Policy Division at the Economics and Research Department of Banco de Portugal since 2015. João joined Banco de Portugal as a Research Economist and Nova School of Business and Economics as Invited Assistant Professor in 2007 while in 2012 he started collaborating with Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. He has previously worked as a Researcher at the Free University of Amsterdam. João holds a Ph.D. in Economics (Stanford University) a M.Sc. in Statistics (London School of Economics) and a Licenciatura in Mathematics Applied to Economics and Business (Technical University of Lisbon - ISEG). His research interests are in Time Series Econometrics and Macroeconomics and his work has been published at the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Macroeconomic Dynamics and The Economic Journal.