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“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 and, previously, at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), where he also obtained his Master's degree. He is currently visiting the Centre for Macroeconomics at LSE under the supervision of Prof. Ricardo Reis. He graduated cum laude in Political Science from the University of Milan and received the Premio America Giovani, a prize awarded annually to outstanding young Italian graduates, which included an Executive Master. Before starting his academic career, he served as a Cadet Officer at the Military Academy of Modena and gained experience as a project manager at a start-up in Milan. He subsequently interned at BlackRock and was a research fellow at AlphaMundi Group, an impact investing fund based in Geneva. He spent a semester at the European Stability Mechanism, where he co-authored a research project on bond convenience yields in the euro area, and recently completed a research visit at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, working on the macroeconomic effects of productivity growth on inflation and the implications for AI.

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