Researchers

IEP@BU researchers come from diverse background and experiences.

They all share the common passion of contributing to Europe’s competitiveness, to the EU’s influence worldwide and to a prosperous, sustainable and equitable future for Europeans.

Arnstein Aassve

Fellow

Arnstein Aassve is Professor in Demography (Arnie for short). He is currently leading the FutuRes project - Towards a resilient future of Europe, a Horizon Europe collaborative project. He has published widely in demography, sociology, economics, pub ...

Irene Agnolucci

Fellow

Irene's main research interests lie in EU State aid policy, gathering together law, economics and EU policies. Specifically, she aims to address the interaction of EU State aid control with different EU policies, notably EU industrial policy. Further ...

Carlo Altomonte

Member of the Management Council

BA in Economics (with major in International Economics) from Università Bocconi. PhD in International Law and Economics from Università Bocconi. MA in Economics (UC Louvain) and PhD in Applied Economics from KU Leuven.Carlo Altomonte was Program Dire ...

Massimo Amato

Fellow

Massimo Amato earned his degree in Economic and Social Sciences and his PhD in Social and Economic History from Università Bocconi. He is researcher in Economic History. Since 1991 he held cycles of in-depth lessons and seminars as part of the econom ...

Ignazio Angeloni

Non-Resident Fellow

Ignazio Angeloni is a part-time professor at the European University Institute in Florence and a Senior Policy Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE in Frankfurt.In 2019-2022 he was Senior Research fellow in the Harvard Kennedy ...

Filippo Annunziata

Fellow

Filippo Annunziata is Professor of Financial Markets and Banking Legislation at Bocconi University. Member of the Faculty of the PhD in Legal Studies at Bocconi University. He is also Professor of Musicology at Università degli Studi di Milano. Prev ...

Senem Aydin-Düzgit

Non-Resident Fellow

Senem is a Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University and Senior Scholar and Research and Academic Affairs Coordinator at the Istanbul Policy Center. She is currently based at the Robert Bosc ...

Jan Bakker

Fellow

Jan Bakker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He received his PhD from the University of Oxford and he w ...

Grace Ballor

Fellow

Grace Ballor studies the historical political economy of contemporary Europe, the role of business in European integration, and the evolution of global governance. She is currently Assistant Professor of International Economic History at Bo ...

Enrico Basile

Fellow

Enrico Basile is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and White-Collar Crime. He graduated cum laude from the Università di Messina School of Law, he was visiting scholar at the Louisiana State University (USA) and at the University of the West of Eng ...

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

Non-resident Fellow

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi holds a degree in Economic Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and a Ph.D in Economic Sciences from the University of Chicago. He began his career in 1983 as an economist in the Research Department of the ...

Tito Boeri

Fellow

Tito Boeri is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. He is Scientific Advisor of the Fondazione Ing. RODOLFO DEBENEDETTI (www.frdb.org), as well as one of the founders of the economic information website www.lavoce.info and of the fe ...

Massimo Bordignon

Non-resident Fellow

Massimo Bordignon is currently full professor of Public Economics at the Catholic University of Milan. He worked as a consultant for several national and international institutions and acted as a member of several technical commissions within the Ita ...

Emanuele Borgonovo

Fellow

Emanuele Borgonovo is Full Professor at Bocconi University and Director of the Department of Decision Sciences. He is Co-editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Operational Research, President 2020-2022 of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS, ...

Leonardo Borlini

Fellow

M.sc in Economics and Business Administration from Bocconi University (magna cum laude) and M.sc in Law (J.D. equivalent) from the University of Pavia (magna cum laude). LL.M from the University of Cambridge. Ph.D. in International Law and Economics ...

Valentina Bosetti

Member of the Management Council

Since 2012, Valentina Bosetti is a professor at Bocconi University teaching environmental and climate change economics. From 2020 to 2023, she chaired the Board of Directors of the Italian Transmission System Operator, Terna. She collaborates as a se ...

Corrado Botta

Fellow

Corrado's research primarily focuses on financial risk management, financial econometrics, and commodity market dynamics. He has been conducting in-depth research on the impact of price cap mechanisms on commodity market dynamics, particularly in lig ...

Stefano Breschi

Fellow

Stefano Breschi is Professor of Applied Economics and Director of the Invernizzi Center for Research on Innovation, Organization, and Strategy (ICRIOS) at Bocconi University. He obtained his PhD from the University of Pavia, and his MSc degree from M ...

Franco Bruni

Fellow

Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics, Bocconi University; President, Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI); Member of the Board of Directors, Banca Sella Holding.

Brunella Bruno

Fellow

Brunella Bruno is a tenured researcher in Bocconi University's Finance Department. Her primary research interest lies in empirical banking, with a focus on the effects of regulation and supervision on bank behavior. Her most recent research explores ...

Ronald Burt

Fellow

Ronald Burt's work describes social networks creating advantage for certain people and groups. In addition to computer software and research articles, his last three books include the one that proposed the concept of structural holes, Stru ...

Mara Cameran

Fellow

Mara Cameran is a Researcher (Ricercatore Confermato) of Financial Accounting at Bocconi University with a PhD in Business Administration and Management from the Bocconi University (2000). She is also Italian Certified Public Accountant and Lecturer ...

Angelo Marcello Cardani

Fellow

Associate Professor of Economics. Between 1995 and 1999, he took leave to serve in the Cabinet of Mario Monti, then European Commissioner for Internal Market, Financial Services, and Taxation. Between 1999 and 2004, he took leave to be Deputy Head of ...

Elena Carletti

Member of the Management Council

Elena Carletti is a Professor of Finance and Dean for Research at Bocconi University, where she also serves in the Executive Committee of the newly established Institute for European Policymaking and directs the Unit "Banking, Finance and Regula ...

Stefano Caselli

Fellow

Stefano Caselli is the Dean of SDA Bocconi School of Management and he is Full Professor of Banking & Finance at the Department of Finance and Algebris Chair in “Long-Term Investment and Absolute Return” at Bocconi University. He has been Vice-Re ...

Nicolò Cavalli

Fellow

Nicolò Cavalli holds a MSc in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and a BA in Political Sciences from the University of Bologna. During this time, he was a visiting student at Sciences Po Paris and at the London School of E ...

Cesare Cavallini

Fellow

Cesare Cavallini was born on September 16th, 1966. In 1989 I graduate from Catholic University of Milan with J.D. degree. Since September 2022 he is Head of Department of Legal Studies "Angelo Sraffa" of Bocconi University. He has been Full Prof ...

Amanda Cercas Curry

Fellow

Amanda is a researcher in Natural Language Processing (NLP) but her interests span interdisciplinary research, human-computer interaction and AI ethics and regulation. Her PhD was on dialogue systems and since then she has worked extensively on gener ...

Italo Colantone

Fellow

Italo is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at Bocconi University, in Milan. He works in the Department of Social and Political Sciences. He is a Research Fellow of the BAFFI CAREFIN Research Centre and of CESifo. He is a Senior Re ...

Andrea Colli

Fellow

As an historian, his research interests range from economic, business and global history subjects, included the history of international relations and geopolitics. He has published and edited several books and articles in several leading history jour ...