Sala i MartÃn (also Sala-i-Martin in English) is an American and Spanish economist, who is a professor of economics at Columbia University.
Sala i Martin is one of the leading economists in the field of economic growth.Born in Cabrera de Mar, Catalonia, Sala i Martin earned a degree in economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1985.
He completed his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1990.In addition to working at Columbia, he has been a professor at Yale University, Harvard University, and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, where he usually visits for a term, every summer.