Inácio Fernandes de Araújo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Economics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is also a Research Associate at the Núcleo de Economia Regional e Urbana da USP - NEREUS (Regional and Urban Economics Lab) and at the Laboratório de Análises Territoriais e Setoriais. He is an Associate Editor at the academic journal Estudos Econômicos. Inácio held a Lecturer position in the Department of Economics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he taught between July 2021 and June 2022. Previously, he held a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil (2018).
Inácio received his B.A. in Economics (2011) from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. He obtained his M.Sc. in Economics (2014) from the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. He defended his doctoral dissertation (2018) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. He was a visiting researcher at the Regional Research Institute at West Virginia University, USA (July 2016 to February 2017), and at the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, USA (August 2023 to July 2024).
Professor Inácio is a member of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA), Regional Science Association International (RSAI), and Brazilian Regional Science Association (ABER). He served as an assistant to the Editors on the editorial board of the Revista Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos (Brazilian Review of Regional and Urban Studies), the official journal of the Associação Brasileira de Estudos Regionais e Urbanos (Brazilian Regional Science Association – Brazilian Section of the RSAI, Regional Science Association International), from 2018 to 2021.
Inácio’s research fields are regional economics and applied economics. His most recent work is focused on the interplay between regional and industrial interdependence and on the analysis of value chains. His research interests lie in impact assessment using methodologies in both computable general equilibrium and input-output modeling.