Guillermo Uriz Uharte

In order to support University College London Scholar Guillermo Uriz Uharte,  the Advanced Education Trust awarded a £46,000 two-year Sholarship. 

GuiIllermo was the receptor of the first Club Financiero Español & University College London Scholarship.  

Guillermo read his PhD at the Department of Economics of University College of London under the supervision of Professors Imran Rasul and Aureo de Paula.

His research focused on the areas of Industrial Organisation and Labor Economics; and, the impact of the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies in Financial firms and techniques of Network Econometrics to the study of executive compensation and the transmission of firm productivity shocks.

Besides his PhD from UCL, Guillermo holds a Bsc with Distinction in Business and Law by the Public University of Navarra and a Msc in Economics and Finance by CEMFI. 

He has taught courses on Econometrics and Industrial Organisation at University College of London and has experience working in economic consulting.    

Guillermo is currently at Compass Lexecon, a leading Economics Consultancy Firm, that he joined in February 2021.  

Guillermo is a Fellow of Club Financiero Español, City of London.