João Paulo Salvado is research fellow at University of Évora, CIDEHUS. He specializes in Economic and Social History, with a special focus on economic, social and institutional processes related to state formation and empire-building in the early modern period. João Paulo studied History at the NOVA University of Lisbon (BA 1989; Postgraduate 1998; PhD 2010). Prior to his PhD, he worked as a senior official in the cultural sector (1990-1999) and as executive director for the Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses (1999-2002). He lectured at the Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre (2011-2013), before becoming a research fellow at CIDEHUS. His research brought insight into topics such as the role of administrative and military service in the empire for the reconfiguration of the Portuguese nobility; the exploitation of monopoly rents and tax collection for the emergence of new socioeconomic elites; the rise of the fiscal state observed through the lens of new tax revenues (e.g. tobacco), and its institutional innovations. The results of these strands of research have been published, in single and co-authorship, in research articles, book chapters and in the edition of historical primary sources. His current research interests focus on global trade and the transnational business networks that linked intercontinental markets in response to the growing consumption of colonial products in Europe in the long-eighteenth century.