Cátia Batista is a Full Professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics, where she is also Founder and Scientific Director of the NOVAFRICA research centre.
She holds a PhD in Economics from the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago. Cátia has research interests related to international migration and remittance flows, private sector development and financial inclusion, technology adoption, education and policy impact evaluation.
She has done work including randomised and lab-in-the-field experiments in countries such as Cape Verde, Gambia, Kenya, Ireland, Portugal and Mozambique.
Cátia has taught at the University of Chicago, University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, and Notre Dame University, and consulted for the World Bank.
She is currently a Research Fellow at the international research centres CReAM (London, UK), IZA (Bonn, Germany) and JPAL Europe (Paris, France). She is a Councillor at the National Council for Migration and Asylum Policies (Portugal).
