May 2008
Jaume Garcia Villar has been appointed president of the Spanish Institute of Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE) by the Spanish Council of Ministers. Professor of the Department of Economics and Enterprise at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Garcia Villar has been a member of the AQU's CLiC Commission, which deals with tenure-track and non-civil servant status, non-PhD teaching staff since 2006 and is currently the chairman of the CLiC's Social Sciences' committee.