Lucia Corno is Professor of Economics at Cattolica University (Milan) and Co-Founder of the Laboratory for Effective Antipoverty Policies (LEAP) at Bocconi University, which she directed from 2016 to 2026. She is a Research Fellow at CEPR, J-PAL, IFS, and RFBerlin, an elected Council member of the European Economic Association, and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Development Research Network (EUDN). She received a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2020–2025) to study harmful social norms and a Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS) Consolidator Grant (2025–2028) to test effective policies to improve housing fragility.
Her research focuses on Development Economics and Health Economics, with a particular emphasis on harmful gender norms, women's empowerment, and housing poverty. She publishes in leading academic journals including the American Economic Review and Econometrica, and regularly collaborates with governments and international organizations to evaluate the effectiveness of antipoverty policies.
Lucia received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi University in 2009 and has held positions at University College London, Queen Mary University of London, and, most recently, Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a visiting professor in 2024–2025. She has also been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) in Stockholm.