Josue Ortega

I am a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen’s University Belfast and an Associate Editor at the European Economic Review. My research uses theory, data, and experiments to study social integration and the fair allocation of resources.

I have published in journals such as Theoretical Economics, Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of Mathematical Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, and Economics Letters. My work has been featured in outlets including the MIT Technology Review, The Economist, the Financial Times, and BBC’s Thinking Allowed.

I completed my PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2017 under Hervé Moulin’s supervision and my MSc at the Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies in 2014.

I also serve on the program committees of the ACM Economics and Computation Conference (2023–2026), and the Matching under Preferences Workshop (2022-2026). I am sit in the Board of Directors of the Irish Economic Association.

Personal webpage: www.josueortega.com 

Administrative duties:

• Program Director for BSc Economics, BSc Economics with Finance, and BSc Economics with Languages.

 Office Hours:

Fridays, 2 pm - 3 pm or by appointment

In the academic year 2025-2026, I will teach the following modules:

1. Mathematics for Economics (ECO1004)
2. Economics of Networks and Institutions (ECO3032)

In the past, I have taught the following modules:

1. Principles of Economics (ECO1013)
2. Data Analysis and Optimization (ECO2023)
3. Making Sense of a Complex World (MBA7172)
4. Game Theory 
5. Intermediate Microeconomics
6. Market Design