Lucia Tajoli

An expert in international trade and economic integration, she studies global value chains, economic networks, and trade policies between countries.

Role

Full Professor of Economic Policy at the Polytechnic University of Milan.

Bio

He graduated in Political Economics from Bocconi University in 1988, obtained a Diploma in Advanced International Economic Policy Research from the Institute of World Economics in Kiel in 1991, and a PhD in Economic Sciences in 1994.

She is a Full Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Management Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan. She teaches Economics, International Economics, and International Markets and European Institutions in the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs. She has also taught International Economics at Bocconi University and the Scuola Sant'Anna in Pisa, and has been a visiting scholar and visiting professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan several times.

He is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute for International Political Studies, a member of the scientific committee of the Italian Trade Agency, the Masi Foundation, and the European Trade Study Group, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Milan branch of the Bank of Italy.

Her research focuses on theoretical and empirical issues related to international trade and economic integration between countries, particularly through the fragmentation of international production and participation in global value chains . She has coordinated PRIN projects on European integration, competitiveness, and multilateral trade policies, and is a member of the managing board of the Italian Economic Journal.