Cátia Batista is a Full Professor of Economics and Vice-Dean and President of the Pedagogical Council at the Nova School of Business and Economics, where she is also Founder and Scientific Director of the NOVAFRICA research center. She is the Academic Director of the MSc in Economics. Cátia holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. She has research interests related to international migration and remittance flows, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, technology adoption, education and policy evaluation. She has done work including randomized and lab-in-the-field experiments in countries such as Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ireland, Kenya, Portugal, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. Catia has previously taught at the University of Chicago, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, and Notre Dame University. She is currently a Research Fellow at the research centers CReAM (London, UK), IZA (Bonn, Germany) and JPAL Europe (Paris, France). Previously, Catia worked at the International Monetary Fund and at the Portuguese Catholic University, and consulted for the World Bank and the International Growth Center.