Role
Full Professor of Political Economy at the University of Florence; Rector's Delegate for International Relations and Multilateral Agreements.
Bio
Giorgia Giovannetti is a full professor of economics at the University of Florence and the Rector's Delegate for International Relations and Multilateral Agreements, a visiting professor at New York University (Florence campus), and a member of the Board of Regents of the Bank of Italy-Florence.
She was scientific director of the first and second European Development Reports (ERD 2009 and 2010) and directed the Research Office of the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE) (2005-2007). She holds a PhD in Economics from Cambridge (UK) and a degree in Statistics from Sapienza University of Rome. She was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1990-1995) and a visiting professor at several universities, including Pompeu Fabra, the Hoover Institution-Stanford, and Torcuato Di Tella.
She serves on the editorial boards of the IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook and the Foreign Trade Report (ITA-Agenzia), as well as Economia Italiana. She has been a consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the European Commission, and the World Bank; she is a fellow of the Luca d'Agliano Study Center and the Ferdi Foundation.
His research focuses on international and development economics: he has studied the productivity and competitiveness of firms in Italy and developing countries, and how participation in global value chains influences their development. He has also analyzed the Chinese economy, including in relation to investments along the Silk Road , as well as European economic policies, Brexit, and the conditions of sub-Saharan African countries experiencing fragility and conflict.