Faculty Affiliates

Michela Carlana

INSPIRE and LEAP Director

Michela Carlana is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. Michela is the director of INSPIRE and LEAP.She received her PhD in Economics ...

Diogo Britto

CLEAN Director

Diogo Britto is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Milan-Bicocca and UniCredit Foundation Marco Fanno Fellow. He holds a joint PhD degree in Law and Economics at the Universities of Bologna, Hamburg and Erasmus Rotterdam. Diogo is ...

Nicoletta Balbo

ABLE Director

Nicoletta Balbo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University. She is the director of ABLE.Nicoletta was an AXA Post-doctoral Fellow at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynami ...

Luca Privinzano

Associate Director of Research

Luca Privinzano is the Associate Director of Research at LEAP at Bocconi University. In this role, he is responsible for policy outreach with partners and stakeholders and for improving LEAP's operational effectiveness, contributing to its growth and ...

Alessandra Voena

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Alessandra Voena is a Professor at the Department of Economics, Stanford University and she received her PhD in economics from Stanford University in 2011. Her research focuses on economics of the family, as well as labor and development economi ...

Alessio Romarri

Faculty Affiliate, CLEAN

Alessio Romarri is an Assistant Professor (Serra Húnter Fellow) at the Department of Applied Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is also an affiliated researcher at the Rockwool Foundation (Berlin) and at the Barcelona Institute of Econo ...

Alexandre Fonseca

Faculty Affiliate, CLEAN

Alexandre Fonseca is a tax auditor and senior researcher at the Federal Revenue of Brazil. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Federal University of Pernambuco and his MPA from Syracuse University. His main research interests include eco ...

Alexia Delfino

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Alexia Delfino is Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2020. Her research is in development and organisational economics, with a focus on ...

Alice Dominici

Faculty Affiliate, ABLE

Alice Dominici is an affiliated researcher at INSPIRE and an Assistant Professor of Economics at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. Her research covers social policies in the fields of health economics and historical political economy, parti ...

Andrea Guariso

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Andrea Guariso is an Associate Professor of Economics at University of Milan-Bicocca. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Leuven in 2016 and worked at Trinity College Dublin between 2016-2021.His research is in development economi ...

Antonio León

Postdoctoral Researcher, CLEAN

Antonio León is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the CLEAN Research Unit at Bocconi. Before joining Bocconi, he was a PhD student at QMUL, and a visiting scholar at PSE. He holds an MA from FGV-SP and a BA from FEA-USP. He has two main ongoing resea ...

Antonio Marra

Faculty Affiliate, CLEAN

Antonio Marra is Full Professor of Accounting and Financial Management at the Department of Accounting at Bocconi University, and has served as its Director since 2025. He holds visiting positions at Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania, Stern ...

Awa Ambra Seck

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Awa Ambra Seck is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy unit at Harvard Business School. She graduated from Harvard in May 2023 with a PhD in Political Economy and Government (Economics track ...

Beatrice Montano

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Beatrice Montano is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received my PhD in Political Science at Columbia University in 2026.She studies the interplay of social norms and politics, with a foc ...

Breno Sampaio

Faculty Affiliate, CLEAN

Breno Sampaio is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco/UFPE, Brazil and Director of the Group for the Economic Evaluation of Public Policies (GAPPE.org). He received his PhD in Economics from the Uni ...

Christoph Koenig

Faculty Affiliate, CLEAN

Christoph Koenig is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Management “Marco Fanno” at the University of Padova and Research Associate at CAGE Warwick.His research interests are Applied Microeconomics, Political Economy and Economi ...

Danilo Bolano

Faculty Affiliate, ABLE

Danilo Bolano is a demographer and social statistician. His main research interest is in life course research and in applying and developing advanced statistical tools to improve understanding of individual behaviours and attitudes. He is intere ...

Devis Decet

Postdoctoral Researcher, LEAP

Devis Decet is an economist with interests in development, environmental, political, and public economics. His research focuses on state capacity and on the challenges posed by climatic shocks and environmental conservation. He works as a Postdoctora ...

Diego Ubfal

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Diego Ubfal is a Senior Economist in the World Bank's Gender Group, where he contributes to the implementation of the 2024-2030 World Bank Group Gender Strategy. Diego leads the initiative to fast-track the Strategy in 26 Countries, and coordinate th ...

Diego Zambiasi

Faculty Affiliate, CLEAN

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 ...

Edoardo Teso

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Edoardo Teso is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University, and an Associate Professor (untenured) in the MEDS Department of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University [on leave 2024-2026].He is also a ...

Eliana La Ferrara

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Eliana La Ferrara is Professor of Public Policy and Faculty Chair of the MPA/ID Program at Harvard Kennedy School. She received a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1999. Prior to joining HKS, she was the Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at Bo ...

Erika Deserranno

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Erika Deserranno is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Bocconi University, and a visiting Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. She received her PhD in Economics from the London School ...

Francesca Calamunci

Faculty Affiliate, CLEAN

Francesca Calamunci is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTDB) of Political Economy at the University of Catania, and a Research Affiliate at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics and the Global Labor Organization (GLO). She holds a Ph.D. in Economi ...

Francesca Miserocchi

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Francesca Miserocchi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Tilburg University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2024 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy Schoo ...

Gema Lax-Martinez

Faculty Affiliate, CLEAN

Gema Lax Martínez is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Padova. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Lausanne. Her fields of specialization are Economic History and Conflict. Her recent work focuses on the long-te ...

Giacomo Battiston

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Giacomo is a research associate at RFBerlin. Prior to this, he was at the University of Padova. Giacomo obtained his PhD in Economics from Bocconi University.His interests include political economy and labor economics, with a particular focus on the ...

Gianmarco Daniele

Faculty Affiliate, CLEAN

Gianmarco Daniele is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Milan, Faculty of Law. He is also a Research Affiliate at CEPR, an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and an Associate Researc ...

Giovanna Marcolongo

Postdoctoral Researcher, CLEAN

Giovanna Marcolongo completed her PhD in Economics at Boston University in 2020 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Bocconi University. She works at the intersection of political economy and development economics, with a particular focus on the econo ...

Iris Steenkamp

Faculty Affiliate, LEAP

Iris Steenkamp is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department at Bocconi University. She received her PhD in Marketing from London Business School. Her research explores the impact of marketing (as an intervention or a mechanism) in emerg ...