Vasco M. Carvalho is currently Professor of Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge.  He is also the Director of the Cambridge-INET institute and a Fellow of Jesus College, the Alan Turing Institute and CEPR. Having gained his PhD at the University of Chicago, he was a Junior Researcher at CREI in Barcelona and Affiliated Assistant Professor at University Pompeu Fabra before joining the University of Cambridge in 2013. He was awarded the 2014 Wiley Prize in Economics by the British Academy for "achievement in research by an outstanding early career economist".  He was the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Grant "MacroNets: Production Networks in Macroeconomics" and of a Leverhulme Prize Fellowship.

Professor Carvalho's research focuses on the origins of business cycles. His research has shown how the organization of production around supply-chain networks exposes the aggregate economy to disruptions in critical nodes along these chains.