Role
Full Professor of Political Economy at the University of Pavia and Visiting Professor, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg.
Bio
A graduate of Bocconi University in Economics, she continued her education with a Master's in Development Economics at Oxford and a PhD at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. After research and teaching experiences at the University of Padua and the University of Eastern Piedmont, she has been a full professor of Economics at the University of Pavia since 2011. From 2017 to 2021, she was an Assigned Professor at the University of Aalborg in Denmark. Since 2024, she has been a Visiting Professor at the College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg.
His research focuses on development economics and the economics of innovation. His studies focus on the role of clusters and firms' participation in global value chains in acquiring innovative capacity. More recently, his research has explored the role of ecological transition in emerging countries.
She has been a visiting professor at numerous international universities and regularly consults for major international organizations, including the OECD, the European Commission, the ILO, the International Monetary Fund, and the Inter-American Development Bank.