About

“Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development” – Amartya Sen, “Development as freedom” 1999. 

Cristian is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Bern, having begun his doctoral studies at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), where he also earned his Master's degree. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Macroeconomics at the LSE, hosted by Prof. Ricardo Reis. His research is in monetary economics and (macro-) finance, with a focus on inflation dynamics and bond markets.

He graduated cum laude in Political Science from the University of Milan and received the Premio America Giovani, awarded annually to outstanding young Italian graduates, which included an Executive Master. Before turning to academia, he served as a Cadet Officer at the Military Academy of Modena and worked as a project manager at a Milan-based start-up. He subsequently interned at BlackRock and was a research fellow at AlphaMundi Group, an impact investing fund in Geneva.

More recently, he spent a semester at the European Stability Mechanism, where he co-authored a research project on convenience yields in euro area sovereign bond markets, and completed a research visit at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, working on the effects of productivity growth on inflation and the implications for AI.

Research Interests: (International) Macroeconomics, International Finance, Monetary Economics.