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.

Paolo Andrea Colombo

Fellow

Paolo Colombo is the Founder Member of Colombo & Associati.His professional experience mainly focuses on the following areas: Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Financial Restructuring, Consulting, Fairness Opinion, Corpor ...

Giuseppe Corvino

Fellow

He is a professor of financial markets and institutions at Bocconi University, where he deals with investments, insurance, and pension funds topics. He has been Visiting Professor at the Politecnico Milano, the MIB Trieste School of Management and th ...

Carlo Cottarelli

Non-Resident Fellow

Carlo Cottarelli obtained a degree in Economics and Banking from the University of Siena in 1977 and a Master in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1981.From 1981 to 1987 he worked at the Monetary Directorate of the Research Department ...

Edoardo Croci

Fellow

Professor of Practice at Bocconi University, he is Director of the Sustainable Urban Regeneration Lab and Senior Research Fellow at GREEN (Centre for Geography, Resources, Environment, Energy and Networks), where he coordinates the “Green Economy Obs ...

Alan Dashwood

Non-Resident Fellow

Alan Dashwood began teaching European Community Law in 1970 and have been specialised in it since the period he spent at the European Court of Justice as Advocate General Warner’s Legal Secretary (1978-1980). At Cambridge, until his retirement, he le ...

Catherine De Vries

IEP@BU President

Catherine De Vries is Dean for International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University. She is passionate about academic service and leadership. In addition, she cares deeply about political science research and ...

Francesco Decarolis

Fellow

Francesco Decarolis is Full Professor at the Department of Economics, Bocconi University - Milan. His area of research is Industrial Organization and he mostly works on topics in competition economics, antitrust, market desig ...

Giacinto Della Cananea

Fellow

He is a public lawyer, with research interests spanning both administrative law, European Union law and global administrative law, with specific focus on three areas: the comparative law of administrative procedures, the general principles of law, an ...

Nilanjana Dutt

Fellow

Nilanjana Dutt is an Associate Professor of Strategy at Bocconi University's Department of Management and Technology.Her research focuses on understanding patterns of change triggered by firm's problem solving activities. She examines these act ...

Giovanni Fattore

Fellow

Giovanni Fattore holds a Degree in Economics and Social Sciences from Università Bocconi, a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard University and PhD in Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Scienc ...

Jonathan Faull

Non-Resident Fellow

Sir Jonathan Faull KCMG is Chair of European Public Affairs at the Brunswick Group. He's former Director General in the European Commission. Author of many articles on European law and policy and co-editor of a leading work on European Competition La ...

Carlo Favero

Fellow

D.Phil. from Oxford University, member of the Oxford Econometrics Research Centre. Professor of econometrics at Bocconi University from 1994 to 2001, and professor of economics since 2002. Teaching econometrics at Bocconi's Department of F ...

Giuseppe Franco Ferrari

Fellow

Giuseppe Franco Ferrari is Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law at Bocconi University. He previously taught at Università di Teramo, at Università di Pavia and at Università Cattolica in Milano. He was Fulbright Scholar at University of Virginia ...

Maurizio Ferrera

Non-resident Fellow

Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milano, as well as founder and President of NASP (Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Sciences), a consortium f ...

Stefano Filauro

Fellow

Stefano Filauro is an economist working as a post-doc at the Dondena Center. His main research interests are in welfare economics, with a focus on income and wealth inequalities, housing costs and poverty analysis, labour policies and inequality of o ...

Annita Florou

Fellow

Annita Florou is Professor of Accounting at Bocconi University. Prior to this, she held academic positions at London Business School, Queen Mary University of London and King’s College London. Currently, she is the Curriculum Coordinator of the Accou ...

Chiara Fumagalli

Fellow

Chiara Fumagalli is Full Professor of Economics and Dean of the Undergraduate School. She earned her Degree in Economics at Bocconi University (DES) in 1994 and her PhD in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2000. She is Research ...

Vincenzo Galasso

Fellow

Vincenzo Galasso is a Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Head of the Department of Social and Political Science, and Director of APE - Analysis in Pension Economics, a research unit of Baffi-CAREFIN. He is the Principal Investigator of a S ...

Pietro Galeone

Post Doctoral Fellow

Pietro Galeone is a researcher at IEP@BU and lecturer at Bocconi University. His research currently focuses on education and labor economics, youth policies and social inclusion. He obtained his BA in Social Studies from Harvard University, focusing ...

Carlo Garbarino

Fellow

Carlo Garbarino graduated with a J.D., Magna cum Laude from University of Genoa in 1983. Combined program Ph.D. (Law), University of Genoa, Italy and Visiting Scholar, Yale Law School, 1987-1989 under a Rotary Foundation Scholarship LL.M., ...

Federica Genovese

Non-Resident Fellow

Federica Genovese is a Professor at the University of Oxford, Member of the Department of Politics and International Relations and Fellow at St Antony's College.She previously held positions at University of Essex and a postdoctoral fellows ...

Andrea Gilli

Non-resident Fellow

Andrea Gilli is Lecturer in Strategic Studies at the University of St Andrews, Senior Advisor to the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense in Italy, and Expert Mentor of NATO DIANA (Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic). ...

Simon Goerlach

Fellow

Simon Goerlach is an applied economist. He received his PhD in Economics from University College London, and an undergraduate degree in International Economics from the University of Tübingen. He is a research affiliate at BIDSA, CEPR, CReAM, IGIER, ...

Sylvie Goulard

IEP@BU Vice President

Sylvie Goulard is President of the Deutsch Französisches Institut (Ludwigburg, Germany) and Vice President of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University (Milano, Italy). She is also Professor of Practice at SDA Bocconi.In June 2023 ...

Elena Gramano

Resident Fellow

Elena Gramano currently hold the position of Assistant Professor of Labour Law at the Department of Legal Studies, Bocconi University. Prior to this, she served as a Research Fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Labour and Civil Law, ...

Daniel Gros

IEP@BU Director

Daniel Gros is Director of the Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University.Between 2020 and 2022 he was Distinguished Fellow and Member of the Board of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). Before that, was the director of ...

Laurenz Guenther

Fellow

Laurenz Guenther is current research focuses on the political representation of EU citizens, trust in democratic institutions, and populism. For instance, a recent paper of him shows that in nearly all European countries and the EU as a whole, the po ...