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Annalisa Rosselli is Senior professor (Docens Turris Virgatae) at the University of Rome Tor Vergata where she was full professor of History of Political Economy from 2000 to 2020. She graduated in Mathematics from the University of Florence and later studied economics at the London School of Economics and the University of California Los Angeles. She began her academic career at the University of Perugia and continued in Rome La Sapienza, Bari and Florence. She currently teaches History of Economic Thought and Policy at LUISS "Guido Carli" University. Since 2018 she has been a member of the Accademia dei Lincei.

Her main research interests in the field of the history of political economy are the history and theory of money, Classical Political Economy, Cambridge economists from Marshall to the post-war period, and the origins of the theory of financial speculation. On these and other topics she has published papers in the main national and international journals in the field, as well as having written or edited several volumes published with internationally renowned publishing houses.

She was President of the Italian Economic Society (SIE) from 2016 to 2019; President of STOREP (Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought) from 2010 to 2012, Vice-President of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) from 2005 to 2008 and then President from 2012 to 2014. She is currently an Expert Advisor to the National Council for Economics and Labor (CNEL). In addition to the usual activities as invited speaker, visiting professor, member of the editorial board of journals, participation in evaluation committees, she has long been involved in the education of young people with various initiatives, especially as a member of the scientific committee of the International Summer School in History of economic thought and economic philosophy. For many years, she has also been working on the economic aspects of gender equality and, as an expert on gender budgeting, she has been involved in numerous national and European projects.