Ruben Enikolopov is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Research Professor at Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), and Researcher at Barcelona Institute for Political Economy and Governance (IPEG). He is also a Research Fellow for the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a Research Affiliate at the International Growth Centre.

His research interests include political economy, economics of mass media, and development economics, with a special focus on the political effects of social media.

He has published various papers in the best academic journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, etc. He is the Chair of the Editorial Board of the Review of Economic Studies and a co-editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics.