Victòria Soldevila is an associate professor at the department of Economics of Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). She has a Bachelor Degree in Economics from Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Comparative Rural Policy Studies from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She obtained her PhD in 2008 from UB.

Before joining the faculty of URV, Victòria taught at UB, École Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse (ESEC) in Barcelona and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (UNAM) in Managua. More recently, she visited twice the Rural Development Institute of the University of Brandon (Canada), and she participated in the ICPRS Summer School courses of the University of Guelph (Canada) and the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven (Belgium).

Her research interests include Agricultural Economy, Rural Development and Post-Socialist Economies. Her publication “Les repercussions de la Directiva Nitrats sobre la filière porcina a Catalunya” won the Llovet i Monrós Prize in Agricultural Studies in 2008.