Rafael Granell, PhD in Economics and Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Valencia. He is the Director of the Public Economic Evaluation research group (EvalPub), a member of the Chair of Regional Taxation and of the Commission for the Study of Tax Reform in the Valencian Region and a researcher at RIFDE.

His area of research focuses on Public Economics, highlighting the following lines: economics of taxation, regional economics, fiscal federalism, poverty and inequality, economics of education and public economic evaluation. He has published numerous articles in scientific journals, such as Journal of Policy Modeling, Review of Economics of the Household, Service Industries Journal, Ageing & Society, Education Economics, Journal of Regional Research and Review of Public Economics. He has been a researcher in projects and contracts with several entities such as Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spanish Social Security, Spanish Institute of Fiscal Studies, Generalitat Valenciana, IVIE and La Caixa Foundation.