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Carlos Mulas Granados (Madrid, Spain, 1974) is a Spanish economist and university professor, currently working for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

PhD in Economics from Cambridge University and advisor to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Carlos Mulas Granados is a tenured Professor of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid. As a consequence of his appointment at the International Monetary Fund, he resigned voluntarily from his previous position at the IDEAS Foundation and the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) in February 2013. Mulas ran for Congress in the list of that party during the general elections of 2011. He also contributed to the economic program of the Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and was deputy director of the Economic Office of the Prime Minister. He was later the Executive Director of the IDEAS Foundation until he joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Publications
He is author or co-author of the following books:

Economics, Politics and Budgets (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006)

The Dynamic State: New Risks, New policies and Welfare State Reform in Europe (Edit. Complutense, 2010)

Corruption, Social Cohesion and Development in Lain America (Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2011)

He has published in major national and international academic journals in the areas of public economics, European economy and economic policy. His most cited articles are:

Reassessing the Fiscal Mix for Successful Debt Reduction (Economic Policy, 2012)

Do Budget Institutions matter? (Eastern European Economics, 2010)

What makes tax consolidations last? A survival analysis of budget cuts in Europe (Public Choice, 2008)

The phasing of Fiscal Adjustments: what works in emerging market economies? (Review of Development Economics, 2006)

Fiscal Policy, Expenditure Composition and Growth in Low-Income Countries (Journal of International Money and Finance, 2005)

He is co-author of a report published in 2013 by the IMF on Portugal (13) that recommends multiple reforms and rethinking role of the State.

He was the author of a blog hosted by El Pais entitled "Economics for the 99%" He has also published numerous articles of opinion and El País, his last article published in the Business section of El Pais was co-written with Olivier Blanchard, the IMF chief economist and discusses the outlook for global growth.

Awards and recognitions
His article entitled “Duration of Fiscal Adjustments in the European Union” won the Prize of the Chair Uni-2 for the best article of European Economics at 2003

He was awarded the Medal of the Spanish Order Isabel la Católica in 2006, for his public services during his tenure as the Deputy Director of the Prime Minister’s Economic Office, a position to which he was appointed in 2004

Activities of social entrepreneurship
He collaborated with the social initiatives of Aprocor Foundation for the inclusion of intellectually impaired people in the labor market. To give a good example, he worked directly with some of them.

As a co-founder of the production company Storylines he co-produced the short-film entitled “Have a Nice Trip”, which was recognized for its positive treatment of immigration, and he also co-produced the short-film “Uniformed”, a movie advocating gender equality in childhood. This latter work has received about thirty national and international awards and was selected as the Short of the Week in El País, ABC, and RTVE.

Ideas Foundation
In May 2009, Carlos Mulas Granados was appointed as Director of the Ideas Foundation. From that position he co-launched the Global Progress initiative in collaboration with the Center for American Progress. The Global Progress summits brought together world figures like Lula da Silva, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Thabo Mbeki, JL Zapatero, Michelle Bachelet, Gordon Brown or Francois Hollande, for different meetings held in Madrid, New York and London. In October 2011, at the request of the Ideas Foundation led by Mulas, these world leaders signed a petition to the G20 in favor of a social pact to end the crisis.

Mulas resigned as Executive Director of the Ideas Foundation to join the International Monetary Fund. In February 2013 he also abandoned PSOE. In that period the Spanish conservative newspaper El Mundo launched a campaign against his famous ex wife for writing articles using the nickname of Amy Martin, as part of a performance for her latest novel Last Days of Warla Alkman, published in November 2013.

The Ideas Foundation directed by Mulas became in only 3 years one of the best political think tanks in the world, according to the ranking of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2012, the British Prospect Magazine chose the Ideas Foundation among the best European think tanks.

Political Activity
Member of "Economists 2004", a group of independent economists responsible for the economic program of the future Prime Minister Zapatero for the 2004 elections.

Member of the Editorial Committee of PSOE’s electoral manifesto in 2008 and 2011.

Candidate for Congress in the list of PSOE in Madrid (Spain) for the general elections held in 2011.