Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez is an Economic History Researcher and Director of the Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA.UMinho) at the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal. He also teaches Early Modern and Economic History at this institution. He was Visiting Scholar at the Appalachian State University (North Carolina, USA) in 2016. He holds a Master´s in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2006) and Ph.D. in History (2013), both from the University of Porto. He is also a member of international economic history associations in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Latin America and United States, being also President of the Economic and Business History Society (EBHS – USA) for the mandate 2022-2023. His main areas of study have been: Economic and Fiscal History of Portugal in the long-run (15th-20th centuries); trade and shipping in the modern times, as well as the building and consolidation of economic and fiscal institutions in Portugal. He published “Mercadores e Banqueiros: sociedade e economia no Portugal dos séculos XIV e XV(2009)”; “Fiscal Policy in Early Modern Europe: Portugal in Comparative Context” (Routledge, 2019) and co-edited with Amelia Aguiar Andrade “Portugal in a European context: essays on taxation and fiscal policies in Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe, c. 1100-1700” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).