Giorgia Giovannetti is Vice President for international Relationships of the University of Firenze (from November 2015), full Professor of Economics at the University of Florence (since 2001), visiting Professor at the European University Institute, Part time professor at New York
Read MoreUniversity, Study abroad programme and member of the “consiglio di Reggenza” of the Bank of Italy, Florence. She has acted as Scientific Director of the (first and second) European Report on Development in 2009 and 2010, Director of the Development Research Area in the Global Governance Programme (2011-2013), Director of the Research Centre of the Italian Trade Institute-ICE (2005-2007). She has been advising the EU Commissioner for Development (2009-2012), the President of the Italian Trade Institute-ICE (2004-2014), the Italian Treasury (2003-05) and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Trade (2002-05). She is the scientific coordinator of the Fondazione Manlio Masi, member of the globalization team at OECD, fellow of the Foundation for International Development Study and Research- FERDI, (University of Auvergne at Clermont Ferrand) and Fondazione Luca D’Agliano (Turin). She was in a Group of the Center for Global Development (CGD) in Washington working on the Reform of the Rome Agencies. She holds a PhD and an MPhil in Economics from Cambridge University, and a Laurea cum laude in Statistics from the University of Roma la Sapienza. In the past she has been fellow of Trinity College- Cambridge and lecturer (1990-1995) and visiting Professor in several universities (Pompeu Fabra- Barcelona, Hoover Institution-Stanford, Universitat Torcuato de Tella- Buenos Aires). She has also been Fellow of the European Forum of the EUI on “The Political Economy of an Integrated Europe” (1996-97). Her research interests include macroeconomics, political economy, international trade, European Economy and development economics. Her work has been published in leading academic journals and presented in main international conferences.
Publications
as Co-author/Contributor
- Policy papers Demand and Supply Exposure Through Global Value Chains: Euro-Mediterranean Countries During Covid - 23/03/2021
- Working papers Global Value Chains – Participation and Development Opportunities: Hints from the Product Space - 28/09/2020
- Working papers Global Value Chains – Participation and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Egypt - 28/09/2020
- Working papers The asymmetric effects of twenty years of tariff reforms on Egyptian workers - 29/07/2020
- Working papers SYRIA IN THE DARK: ESTIMATING THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH SATELLITE-DERIVED NIGHT LIGHTS - 17/02/2020
- Working papers GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS AND THE PRODUCTIVITY OF FIRMS IN MENA COUNTRIES: DOES CONNECTIVITY MATTER? - 22/01/2020