Juan Laborda holds a PhD in Economics and Management of Organizations at University of Zaragoza (PhD Extraordinary Award). He also holds a Postgraduate in Financial Economics in CEMFI (Center of Financial and Monetary Studies) of Bank of Spain. Nowadays is Assistant Professor Doctor (Department of Organization Engineering, Business Administration and Statistics) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid . He has been Chief Economist and Chief of Global Macro Strategist in different financial institutions. He has different academic and non-academic publications in financial economics, transportation research, open innovation, sustainability and macroeconomics including academic journals as Financial Innovation; Quantitative Finance; International Review of Economics and Finance; Finance Research Letters; Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice; Competition & Change; Cambridge Journal of Economics; Journal of Evolutionary Economics; International Economics; Mathematics; PLoS ONE; Sustainability; Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity; Digital Business.