Leonor Freire Costa#
| Membership Number: | 7402 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | PORTUGAL |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/en/faculty/maria-leonor-costa |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8867-3036 |
| Publication Link: | https://www.cienciavitae.pt/9518-7A32-CFE0 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Full Professor
- 2018 Associate Professor
- 2001 Assistente Professor with Tenure. All at ISEG_UL
Fields of Scholarship
- Information economics
- Economic and social development of Portugal and Brazil
- Economic and social history
- Development studies
- Financial history
- Early modern colonial systems
- Neo-institutionalism
Honours and Awards
- 2025 winner of the Figuerola Prize for the paper "The Anatomy of the Premodern State", published by European Review of Economic History;
