Composition and competencies
Its creation was proposed in the Department Council of April 10, 2015, replacing the Doctoral and Faculty Committees. Its creation was approved in the Department Council of 16/12/2015, and it was constituted as a collegiate body of ordinary management of the Department.
Composition:
As members designated by the regulations, the Director, Deputy Director and Secretary of the Department shall be part of the Committee. As members, representatives of the rest of the Department, each area will designate whoever it deems appropriate, ensuring that, in any case, there are two members from each area with representation on the Board. The Director shall not have a casting vote.
Mandate:
The Standing Committee shall have the same term of office as the Department Director.
Competences:
Being a management body, it may only deal with those functions that, being of this nature, are expressly delegated to it by the Board. Specifically, the following functions are contemplated:
- Approval of research stays, acceptance of visiting professors and, in general, stays of more than five days, which require the permission of the Department.
- Approval for the authorization of Proprietary Titles presented or in which members of the Department participate. In this case, it will be previously communicated to the rest of the members of the Council by e-mail and, if necessary and expressly requested, its approval will be discussed in the Council.
- Authorization to participate in European, national and regional projects in which the Principal Investigator belongs to another University.
- Renewal of associate and non-tenured faculty contracts at the request of the area. In no case shall it make decisions related to the announcement of permanent faculty positions.
- It will be in charge of the coordination tasks assigned to the Department for the purposes of the accreditation of Bachelor's and Master's Degrees by ANECA.
Since its renewal, approved at the Department Council of December 10, 2019, the composition of the Department's Standing Committee is as follows:
- Department Director (Ms. Gabriela Lagos Rodríguez).
- Deputy Director of the Department (Ms. Isabel Pardo García).
- Secretary of the Department (Ms. Leticia Meseguer Santamaría).
- Representative of the Statistics Area: Mr. Román Mínguez Salido.
- Representative of the Economic Policy Area: Ms. Inmaculada Buendía Martínez.
- Representative of the Public Finance Area: Mr. Antonio Olaya Iniesta.