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.

Luigi Iovino

Fellow

Luigi Iovino is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Bocconi University and Research Affiliate at CEPR. He is a Macroeconomist interested in understanding the economy-wide implications of informational frictions and bounded rationali ...

Kerim Kavakli

Fellow

Kerim Kavakli is an assistant professor of Political Science at Bocconi University. He earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester. Before coming to Bocconi, he was an assistant professor of Political Science at Sabanci Unive ...

Alexandros Kentikelenis

Fellow

Alexandros Kentikelenis is associate professor of political economy and sociology at Bocconi’s Department of Social and Political Sciences. His research interests lie primarily in two areas: decision-making in global governance, and the socio-economi ...

Martin Larch

Visiting Fellow

Martin Larch has been with the European Commission since 2000. Currently serving as Head of the Secretariat of the European Fiscal Board, he previously led the unit responsible for Ireland during the country’s financial assistance programme. Earlier ...

Dovev Lavie

Fellow

Dovev Lavie is a Professor of Management at the Department of Management and Technology of Bocconi University. Formerly, he served as a Full Professor and Vice Dean of MBA Programs at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Techni ...

Thomas Le Barbanchon

Fellow

Thomas Le Barbanchon is associate professor of economics at Bocconi. He received a PhD in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique in 2012. Before 2012, he worked as an economist at the French Statistical Institute and at the Ministry of Labor. His resear ...

Muxin Li

Fellow

Muxin is a postdoc at IGIER - Università Bocconi. Her primary research interest is Industrial Organization, with a special focus on the digital economy and competition policy. Her existing research covers several antitrust remedies, including Android ...

Stefano Liebman

Fellow

Stefano Liebman is Emeritus Professor of Law and previously was Full Professor of Labour Law (2000/2022). Born on March 13th, 1953, graduated in Law in 1976 from Università degli Studi di Milano. Latest academic appointments: Associate Professor at ...

Simone Lonati

Fellow

Simone Lonati (b. August 21st, 1973 in Brescia, Italy) is Associate Professor of Criminal Procedure at Bocconi University, Milan, where he teaches Italian Criminal Procedure and European Criminal Procedure at the Law School. He also serves as a Prof ...

Francesco Longo

Fellow

Francesco Longo holds a Degree in Economics from Università Bocconi. He is Associate Professor of Public Management at the IPAS Institute of Public Administration and Health Care Management "Carlo Masini". He is Director of CERGAS Centre fo ...

Lorenzo Lupo

Fellow

Lorenzo Lupo works on the development and application of natural language processing (text AI) techniques to social and economic issues. Specifically, he is currently working on extracting information from social media to predict survey outcomes, esp ...

Marcel Magnus

Visiting Fellow

Marcel Magnus has been part of the EGOV unit at the European Parliament since 2014. Prior to this role, he worked in the European Commission's DG Competition (Task Force Financial Crisis) from early 2009 and held various other positions within the Co ...

Alberto Manconi

Fellow

Alberto Manconi joined the Finance Department at Bocconi University in 2016. From 2010 to 2016, he was Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor of Finance at Tilburg University (Netherlands). He obtained his Ph.D. from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, ...

Angelo Martelli

Non-Resident Fellow

Angelo Martelli is Assistant Professor in European and International Political Economy at the LSE European Institute. He worked as a Consultant for the Jobs Group of the World Bank, as a Policy Fellow for the Open Innovation Team of the UK Cabinet Of ...

Lanny Martin

Fellow

He is a Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University, in Milan, Italy. He is also a research fellow in the Politics and Institutions unit of the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy. His research focuses ...

Letizia Mencarini

Resident Fellow

Letizia Mencarini is Full Professor of Demography at Bocconi University, at Department of Social and Political Science, Fellow at the DONDENA Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, and at the Center for Demography and Ecology at Un ...

Silvia Merler

Non-Resident Fellow

Silvia Merler is currently Head of ESG & Policy Research at Algebris Investments, a global asset management firm. She also serves as a Non-Resident Fellow at Bruegel, Brussels-based economic policy think-tank, and is an Adjunct Lec ...

Marcello Messori

Non-Resident Fellow

Marcello Messori is a part-time professor at the Schuman Centre, European University Institute (EUI), and a member of the EMU-Lab at the same Centre. He is a non-resident Fellow at the Institute for European Policy Making (IEP), Bocconi University. H ...

Stefano Micossi

Non-resident Fellow

Stefano Micossi is Advisor on strategies and policies, Assonime, a business association and think tank in Rome and Visiting Fellow at European University Institute; he was formerly Director General in Assonime (1999-2022) and a Director General in th ...

Alessandro Minichilli

Fellow

Alessandro Minichilli is a Full Professor at the Management & Technology Department of Bocconi University. At SDA Bocconi he is Associate Dean for Faculty, Director of the Corporate Governance Lab, and co-Director of the eSG Lab - excel ...

Massimo Morelli

Fellow

Massimo Morelli is Professor of Political Science and Economics at Bocconi University. He has has been elected Fellow of the Econometric Society – and Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory – mostly for his contributions to bargaining, polit ...

Tommaso Nannicini

Fellow

Tommaso Nannicini holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute (2005), a Master in Economics from Bocconi University (1999) and he earned his B.A. in Political Sciences from the University of Florence (1998). He is Full Prof ...

Giuseppe Nicoletti

Non-Resident Fellow

Giuseppe Nicoletti is currently Senior Fellow at the LUISS Lab of European Economics (LLEE), LUISS University (Rome, Italy). As an OECD consultant, he supervises a task force supporting G7 work for the Italian Presidency and has recently contributed ...

Anna Omarini

Fellow

Anna Omarini’s expertise is in bank strategy and management, retail banking, digital business, FinTech, open banking and finance, payments. She is Researcher with Tenure at the Department of Finance where she is also Course Director for the followin ...

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Fellow

Gianmarco Ottaviano is Professor of Economics and Boroli Chair in European Studies at Bocconi University, having previously taught at the London School of Economics and the University of Bologna. He is co-Director of the Research Unit on Globalizatio ...

Pier Carlo Padoan

Non-Resident Fellow

Pier Carlo Padoan has been Chairman of UniCredit since April 2021.He was Minister of Economy and Finance from February 2014 to May 2018 and Member of Parliament from 2018 to 2020.He has pursued a high standing institutional and academic career both i ...

Simone Padoan

Fellow

Simone Padoan is associate professor at Bocconi University in Milan since 2020. He is reseach fellow at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) since 2020. Since November 2016 he is a research fellow at the Bocconi Insti ...

Maria Antonia Panascì

Fellow

Maria Antonia is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bocconi Lab for European Studies (BLEST), which she joined in 2021 with a project on the impact of Next Generation EU on EU fiscal integration. Her research interests lie in European constitutional law, i ...

Omiros Papaspiliopoulos

Fellow

Omiros Papaspiliopilous joined Bocconi as a Full Professor in 2021. Previous to that, he was ICREA Research Professor based at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He has held other positions at Warwick, Oxford and Lancaster, and has also worked in Berlin, Osak ...

Nicola Pavoni

Fellow

BA in Economics, University of Verona, Italy. Ph.D. in Mathematics for Economic Decisions, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy. Ph.D. in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Full Professor of Economics and Research Fellow at IGIER ...