Role
Former full professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Political Economy and Statistics of the University of Siena
Bio
Francesca Bettio earned a degree in Political Science from the University of Bologna and furthered her economics education with a Master's degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge. After holding research and teaching positions at prestigious universities in Italy and abroad (including La Sapienza University of Rome, Salerno, Siena, Columbia University, and Oxford), she taught at the University of Siena, where she earned a full professorship in Economic Policy.
Her research focuses on labor economics, gender economics, and population economics. For decades, she has coordinated expert networks for the European Commission and contributed to pioneering studies on wage differentials and occupational segregation, the Mediterranean model of female participation, the economics of care work, the gender pension gap, and the statistical and economic analysis of violence against women.
She is the author of numerous internationally renowned scientific publications and co-founder of the portal inGenere.it.