Ana Fontoura Gouveia is an economist specialized in public policy, with both an academic and practitioner background. Ana combines a range of national, European and international experiences, including the academia, applied research and hands-on executive and advisory roles at the government level.

She is currently the Head of Sustainability at Banco de Portugal (since 2024) and an Invited Assistant Professor (adjunct) at Nova School of Business and Economics. She served as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate of Portugal (2023-2024) and as Principal Economic Advisor at the Cabinet of the Prime Minister (2019-2022). Prior to that, she worked at the Economics and Research Department of Banco de Portugal (2018-2019), the Research Offices of the Portuguese Ministry of Finance and the Ministry for the Economy (2015-2019), the European Central Bank (2008-2014) and Banco de Portugal (2004-2008).

Over the years, she represented Portugal in different international fora, including the EU Energy Council of Ministers, the International Energy Agency and COP28; and in several technical working groups, mainly related to structural policies, from institutions such as the OECD, the European Commission, or the European System of Central Banks.

Ana holds a PhD in Economics from Nova SBE (2015), with a dissertation on the political economy of structural reforms. She was a visiting PhD student at Toulouse School of Economics and University of Liège (2012/2013). 

2015 - PhD in Economics, Nova SBE

2004 - Bachelor in Economics, Nova SBE

Public policy, public economics, political economy, productivity, structural reforms 

• Osterhold, Christian, Gouveia, Ana Fontoura (2020). Productivity, Zombie Firms and Exit Barriers in Portugal. INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY MONITOR, 38, 29-49.
• Gouveia, Ana Fontoura, Monteiro, Gustavo, Santa, Silvia Fonte (2019). Product markets' deregulation: a more productive, more efficient and more resilient economy?. HACIENDA PUBLICA ESPANOLA-REVIEW OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS, 230 (3), 125-155.
• Gouveia, A.F. (2017). Political support for reforms of the pension system: two experiments. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 16 (3), 371-394.
• Gouveia, A.F., Fernandes, Ana Filipa (2017). Structural reforms and long-term growth – a model based analysis. Boletim Mensal de Economia Portuguesa, (9), 35-46.
• Gouveia, A.F. (2017). The political economy of pension systems with low‑skilled labor mobility: a cross‑country analysis. Notas económicas, (45), 27-48.
• Fernandes, Marli, Santos, Sílvia, Gouveia, A.F. (2016). The empirics of agglomeration economies: the link with productivity. Boletim Mensal de Economia Portuguesa, 2016 (September), 1-11.
• Gouveia, A.F., Santos, Sílvia, Herber, Corinna (2016). The impact of structural reforms of the judicial system: a survey. Boletim Mensal de Economia Portuguesa, 2016 (Junho), 1-35.

• Gouveia, Ana Fontoura (2018). Completing the economic and monetary union: What economic and fiscal governance?. Challenges and Opportunities for Eurozone Governance. Nova Science Publishers, 121-143.

• Gouveia, Ana Fontoura, Osterhold, Christian (Apr 2018), 35 p., Fear the walking dead: Zombie firms, spillovers and exit barriers.
• Correia, Hugo, Gouveia, A.F. (Sep 2017), 13 p., (ADEMU, n. WP 2017/073), Is deregulation of product and labour markets promoting employment and productivity? A difference-in-differences approach.
• Gouveia, Ana Fountoura, Santos, Sílvia, Gonçalves, Inês (May 2017), (OECD Productivity Working Papers), The impact of structural reforms on productivity: the role of the distance to the technological frontier.
• Monteiro, Gustavo, Gouveia, A.F., Santos, Sílvia (Sep 2017), (OECD Productivity Working Papers, n. 9), Product markets’ deregulation: A more productive, more efficient and more resilient economy?.