Xavier Sala-i-Martin

What I admire about Xavier Sala-i-Martin is the rare hybrid he embodies: a serious Columbia economist who has also lectured at Yale and Harvard, yet who never abandoned the public square as a television presenter and writer. Economics has a habit of locking itself behind jargon, and scholars who refuse that fate, who translate hard ideas for ordinary people, earn my respect. His King of Spain Prize signals academic weight; his journalism prize signals reach. That combination is unusual and valuable. I suspect he is the kind of teacher who can make a curve or a coefficient feel like a story, and that is a gift worth celebrating.

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Name (English)

Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Name (Japanese)

シャビエル・サラ・イ・マルティン

Reading

しゃびえる・さら・い・まるてぃん

Born

June 17, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

Cabrera de Mar, Barcelona Province, Spain

Occupation

economist / university teacher / writer / television presenter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Tiger

University

Autonomous University of Barcelona

Awards & achievements

• 2004 King of Spain Prize in Economics
• 2003 Premi Godó de Periodisme

• Official sitehttps://www.salaimartin.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/Xsalaimartin
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier%20Sala-i-Martin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B6%E3%83%93%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732476

Tags

• Barcelona Province
• economist
• university teacher
• writer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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