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.

Roberto Perotti

Fellow

Roberto Perotti is Full Professor at the Ettore Bocconi Department of Economics of Bocconi University.

Gabriella Perotto is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in EU Law at BLEST (Bocconi Lab in European Studies – Bocconi University) and Adjunct Professor of EU Law at LUMSA University (Rome) She completed he PhD in EU law at the University of Tur ...

Francesco Perrini

Fellow

Francesco Perrini is currently Associate Dean for Sustainability at SDA Bocconi School of Management, he is also responsible for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship (ICE). Full Professor of Management a ...

Oreste Pollicino

Fellow

Oreste Pollicino is Full Professor of Constitutional Law in Bocconi. He also teaches the courses on GDPR, Media Law, Internet Law and he is the Director of the LLM in Law of Internet Technologies in Bocconi University. He is Honest Broker appointed b ...

Michele Polo

Fellow

Michele Polo (B.A. in Economics at Bocconi University, M.Sc. in Economics at the London School of Economics, Ph.D. in Economics at Bocconi University) is Full Professor in Economics at Bocconi University and Research Fellow at IGIER. His main re ...

Zachary Porreca

Fellow

Zachary Porreca is a postdoctoral fellow at Bocconi University. He completed his PhD in Economics at West Virginia University in 2023. He is an applied microeconomist with interests in crime, corruption, law, and emergent institutions. His recent wor ...

Giorgio Presidente

Post Doctoral Fellow

Giorgio Presidente is Research Fellow at the Institute for European Policy-Making at Bocconi University and Research Associate at the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Work, University of Oxford. He is interested in to ...

Paola Profeta

Fellow

Paola Profeta is Dean for Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability and full professor of public economics. She is also the Director of the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality. She received a PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a B ...

Gianluigi Riva

Fellow

After work experience in different fields (Military, HR, Sales, Legal, Startup, Consulting) Gianluigi Riva applied his skills in Legal Strategy for Business, advising Startups/SME in IT Law, Data Protection and Security. Then he moved to Academia br ...

Alessandro Rivera

Non-Resident Fellow

Alessandro Rivera, from 2018 to 2023, was Director General of the Department of the Treasury. In this capacity, he represented Italy in working groups and committees established by leading international financial organizations.In particular, he was t ...

Matthias Rodemeier

Fellow

Matthias Rodemeiers is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Finance at Bocconi University. He works at the intersection of public finance and behavioral economics, with applications to environmental policy and consumer protection. Prior ...

Catherine Rogers

Fellow

Catherine Rogers is a scholar of international arbitration and professional ethics at Bocconi University, with a dual appointment as Professor of Ethics, Regulation, and the Rule of Law at Queen Mary, University of London, where she is also Co-Direct ...

Stefano Rossi

Fellow

Stefano Rossi is a Professor of Finance in the Finance Department at Bocconi University, where he holds the Generali Chair in Insurance and Risk Management. Stefano is a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Research ...

Thomas Rowley

PostDoc Fellow

Thomas Rowley is a researcher at the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University. He obtained his PhD in Economics at ESSEC Business School and CY Cergy Paris Université. His research focuses on international trade, productivity, compet ...

Gaia Rubera

Fellow

Gaia Rubera is Amplifon Chair in Customer Science and Full Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University, where she is the Head of the Marketing Department. She received her PhD from Bocconi University in 2008. Gaia was the Research Manager of the Cen ...

Andrea Rurale

Fellow

Andrea Rurale is a Lecturer at the Department of Marketing at Università Bocconi. At SDA Bocconi, he is the Director of the Master in Arts Management and Administration (MAMA). He has conducted research and education projects with major enterprises. ...

Giorgio Sacerdoti

Fellow

Giorgio Sacerdoti has been Senior Professor since 1 November 2013. Emeritus since 2016. Formerly tenured professor of International Law and European Law (Jean Monnet Chair since 2004) at Bocconi University (1994-2013). Formerly professor at the ...

Carlo Schwarz

Fellow

Carlo Schwarz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick. His research interest lies in the field of applied microeconomics with a particular interest in policy-relevant questi ...

Renu Singh

Fellow

Renu Singh is a political scientist in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University and a Research Fellow at the DONDENA Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy. She is also a Scholar at the O’Neill Ins ...

Eleanor Spaventa

Member of the Management Council

Eleanor Spaventa is Professor of European Union Law at Bocconi Law School, Milan (Italy). She previously worked at the law schools of Durham, Birmingham and Cambridge Universities (UK); in 2014 she held a Christopherson/Knott fellowship at the Instit ...

Giovanni Strampelli

Fellow

Giovanni Strampelli is Full Professor of Business Law at Bocconi University. Since 2019, he is the Director of the PhD in Legal Studies. He has held visiting positions, among others, at the University of Oxford (Harris Manchester College), the Max Pl ...

Romain Svartzman

Fellow

Romain Svartzman is a Research Fellow at Bocconi University’s Institute for European Policymaking (IEP@BU), a Senior Executive Fellow at SDA Bocconi School of Management, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Publ ...

Guido Tabellini

Fellow

Guido Tabellini is the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair in Political Economics at Università Bocconi. He was Rector of Università Bocconi from 2008 to 2012 and he is now Vice-President. He has a PhD in Economics from UCLA. Before returning to Europe, he taught ...

Rosanna Tarricone

Fellow

Rosanna Tarricone is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences and Associate Dean at SDA Bocconi, Bocconi University. She graduated in Business Administration at Bocconi University and holds an MSc in Health Services M ...

Claudio Tebaldi

Fellow

Claudio Tebaldi has been an Associate Professor at Bocconi University since 2011. He has held the National Qualification to Full Professorship in Quantitative Methods for Economics, Finance, and Insurance since 2015. He has received international pri ...

Chiara Trabacchi

Non-Resident Fellow

Chiara Trabacchi is a manager within the Climate team of British International Investments, where she leads on the implementation of the organisation’s approach to climate adaptation and resilience investing and climate risk integration within the ri ...

Francesco Trebbi

Non-Resident Fellow

Francesco Trebbi is the Bernard T. Rocca Jr. Chair and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he co-directs the NBER Polit ...

Alex Turrini

Fellow

Alex Turrini is an Associate Professor in Public and Nonprofit Management at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Università Bocconi, Italy. His research focuses on leadership and governance in cultural organizations; cul ...

Arianna Vedaschi

Fellow

Arianna Vedaschi is Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at Bocconi University. Her research focuses on national security, counter-terrorism, and different types of emergencies. Among her recent publications, 9/11 and the Rise of Global Antiterr ...

Luigi Zingales

Non-Resident Fellow

Luigi Zingales' research interests span from corporate governance to financial development, from political economy to the economic effects of culture. He co-developed the Financial Trust Index, which is designed to monitor the level of trust that Ame ...