Diego Zambiasi

Diego Zambiasi is an economist of crime and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at Newcastle University. His research studies the economics of crime, policing, drug markets, racial disparities in arrests, political rhetoric, and institutional enforcement. At its core, his work asks how the rules of the game are created, enforced, and sometimes broken.

He examines how political incentives, institutional signals, and enforcement strategies shape criminal behaviour, compliance, and discrimination. He studied philosophy before completing a Master’s degree in Economics and Management of the Public Sector, an MSc in Economics, and a PhD in Economics at University College Dublin.