Ph.D. from University College London, UK. Previous studies in Italy (Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant’Anna) and USA (Fulbright Scholar).

Current affiliations: UBC, Associate Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics; CEPR, Research Fellow; HCEO Global Working Group at the University of Chicago; RCEA, Senior Fellow. Past recipient of the Young Economist Award and of the FEEM Award of the European Economic Association.