12 Facts About Luis Garicano

Luis Garicano was vice president of Renew Europe and vice president of the European political party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

Luis Garicano is the son of Ana Gabilondo and Luis Garicano.

Luis Garicano studied at the San Jose School, a Jesuit school, in his hometown.

Luis Garicano received his doctorate in economics from the same institution three years later, in 1998.

Luis Garicano would go on to become an associate professor in 2002 and a full professor in 2006.

For years, Luis Garicano has actively promoted structural reforms to Spanish institutions and the economy, especially in the labor market and the health and pension systems.

Luis Garicano's activism is often compared the activist regenerationism of Jose Ortega y Gasset.

Two years later, and together with 5 other experts, Luis Garicano published his first book in which they argued for reforms to the Spanish economy to ensure productivity and promote growth.

Luis Garicano was a member of the group of economists led by Markus Brunnermeier that developed the European Safe Bonds proposal for the creation of securities backed by a diversified portfolio of euro area central government bonds.

Luis Garicano was in charge of drafting the party's economic program ahead of the 2015 and 2016 general elections and has been the main architect behind Ciudadanos' main economic proposals, including a Spanish equivalent of the American earned income tax credit and the "single contract".

Luis Garicano has been one of the central advocates of liberalism within the party; and was a key factor in the party's ideological transition in 2017 from social democracy towards progressive liberalism.

Luis Garicano left the European Parliament in September 2022 and was replaced by Eva-Maria Poptcheva.