Role
Lead Economist and Program Manager at the Institute for Economic Development of the World Bank Group.
Bio
Francesca Lotti graduated in Statistics and Economics from the University of Bologna and earned a PhD in Economics from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. She has been a visiting student and visiting fellow at Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
She is currently Lead Economist and Program Manager at the Institute for Economic Development of the World Bank Group. Her work focuses on economic growth, productivity, innovation, and business dynamics, with a particular focus on the role of resource allocation, entrepreneurship, and public policies in fostering economic development. She has also worked on the labor market, access to credit, and gender inequalities in the economy.
Before joining the World Bank, he worked at the Bank of Italy, where he held positions of increasing responsibility in economic research and structural analysis, eventually leading units dedicated to the study of firms, productivity, and the structure of the economy.
He has held positions in national and international bodies, including the OECD Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Chief Economist Network of the European Commission. He is a lecturer at LUISS Guido Carli University and a member of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CPER) on Growth, Innovation and the Social Model in Europe, actively participating in the international debate on growth, productivity, and innovation.