About us

Mar Rubio Varas

Professor of History and Economic Institutions in the Department of Economics of the UPNA and director of INARBE.

Trained as an economist and specialized in long-term relationships between energy consumption and the economy, her research also covers aspects of energy dependency and the transition to a low-carbon economy, or the business history of companies in the energy sector.

She has a PhD (2002) and a Master’s (1998) from the London School of Economics (United Kingdom) and a degree in Economics from the Carlos III University of Madrid (1996). Her academic training was completed with a one-year stay (2001-2002 with Fulbright funding) in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley (California, USA).

She has co-directed multiple competitively funded research projects, including the EU 2020 European consortium “History of Nuclear and Society, HoNESt). Her works include the book on the history of the Spanish nuclear sector (The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain / Palgrave-MacMillan, 2017).

Joseba de la Torre

Professor of History and Economic Institutions in the Department of Economics and researcher attached to INARBE of the Public University of Navarra.

PhD in History from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her main field of research is Spanish economic policy from the Franco dictatorship to democracy, and in particular industrial policy and indicative planning of developmentalism (1940-1980).

She has been a Visiting Scholar at La Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris and at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. She has also been president of the Franco-Spanish Committee of Economic History and elected member of the Council of the Spanish Association of Economic History.

She recently published in Business History Review and co-edited with Palgrave-MacMillan the book The Economic History of Nuclear Energy in Spain. Governance, Business and Finance, and in Marcial-Pons Economy in Transition: Del tardofranquismo a la democracia.

Sara Cano

Pre-doctoral researcher in Economics, Business and Law from the Public University of Navarra, Master in International Economics and Development from the Complutense University of Madrid (2017) and Graduate in Economics from the University of Valladolid (2015). INARBE researcher. During her formative years, she collaborated in research activities on decentralized international cooperation and financial business development in developing countries together with think tanks such as the Elcano Royal Institute and other entities such as the University of Salamanca. She has worked as a technician in projects for local adaptation to Climate Change in Europe and Latin America with Third Sector organizations, as well as in public and private banking sectors and electricity trading companies. She is currently working on his doctoral thesis on business development in the electricity sector and the energy transition in Spain.