Professor Dávila has held positions, before joining NU, at CORE (University of Louvain), University of Pennsylvania, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (University of Paris 1), Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has also been visiting scholar at Harvard University, Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, visiting professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Free University of Brussels), Visiting Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, and visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University. He obtained his PhD (1994) in Economics at DELTA (nowadays morphed into Paris School of Economics) from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and obtained his BA in Economics (1990) from the University Complutense of Madrid.