Research interests

• capability approach and human development, poverty and inequality analysis, gender empowerment, social innovation, economic democracy, social economy organizations

Short bio

BA in Political Science with Major in Economics (University of Pavia), PhD in Public Economics (University of Pavia)

Visiting professor at the University of Cambridge, UK, (June-July 1998, Apr.-July 1999, Feb.-July 2003), Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya (Feb, July 2014, Feb. 2015-2019), University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa (June 2013, May 2015), Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (March 2016); Visiting professor at the Department of Economics, Harvard University, USA.

Visiting researcher at the University of Harvard, USA (1996, 2006, 2017)

Visiting fellow at Von Hugel Institute, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University, UK, academic year 2002/2003, and at CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg (July 2006)

Extraordinary Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Free State, South Africa (2014-2018) 

President of the Foundation of the S. Caterina da Siena University College, Pavia (http://www.collegiosantacaterina.it)

President of the Human Development and Capability Association (www.hd-ca.org)

Former editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capability  (https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjhd20 (2017-2023)

Member of the Academic Senate of IUSS - Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia

Member of the Doctoral Board of the International PhD Program in Law, Ethics and Economics for Sustainability, Universities of Milan.

Member of the Scientific Committee of Feltrinelli Foundation, Milan  and of Fondazione Ravasi Garzanti, Milan.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Master Programme on Cooperation and Development, Cooperation and Development Network, University of Pavia, Pavia.  

Member of  ISTAT Inter-Institutional Scientific Committee on absolute poverty

Member of the advisory board for the Report on Inequalities, Cariplo Foundation