Role
Senior Research Fellow at ODI Global, London, UK.
Bio
After graduating in Economics and Commerce (University of Padua, 2003) and a period of study at Essex University, he obtained a master's degree in International Economic Integration (University of Pavia, 2005) and a PhD in Political Economy and Public Finance (University of Pavia, 2009), with a thesis on the sustainability of foreign debt in low-income countries.
During his doctoral studies, he worked as a consultant on external debt at the Economic Policy and Debt Department of the World Bank and was a Visiting Scholar at Notre Dame University. From 2008 to 2011, he was an economist at the OECD Development Centre, focusing on debt sustainability, official development assistance, and development macroeconomics in emerging countries and sub-Saharan Africa.
Since 2011, he has worked at ODI Global (Overseas Development Institute) in London, where he is a Senior Research Fellow in the Development and Public Finance program and heads the research portfolio on international public finance. He is also a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy and editor-in-chief of the journal Development Policy Review.
He has conducted and coordinated research and consulting projects with foreign ministries, cooperation agencies, international organizations, and multilateral development banks , including the G20 process, with extensive field experience in Africa , Latin America, and Asia. He has published extensively on international cooperation, development aid effectiveness, African countries' external debt , and the architecture of multilateral development banks.