Ricardo Reis is the A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He has been a long-term consultant in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond since 2013. 

Reis is an elected fellow of the British Academy, the Academia de Ciências de Lisboa, and the Econometric Society. He is a past winner of the Yrjo Jahnsson medal, the Carl Menger prize, the Bernacer prize, and the Banque de France–Toulouse School of Economics junior prize.

Reis has published widely about several topics in macroeconomics, including monetary policy and fiscal policy, inflation and business cycles, and the international monetary system.