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Maristella Botticini is professor of Economics and fellow of IGIER (the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research) at Università Bocconi in Milano. She has been IGIER director from 2011 to 2019.

She started her career in 1997 as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics of Boston University, where she was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2004. From 2006 to 2009 she has been fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto and professor of economics at the Università degli Studi di Torino.

She is the recipient of a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation (2000-2004), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2002-2004), and an Advanced Research grant from the European Research Council (2012-2017).

She has been Vice-President (2021), President-Elect (2022) and President (2023) of the European Economic Association (EEA). She is a Vice-President and Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

From 2011 to 2023 she has been an independent board member of CIR (Compagnie Industriali Riunite).

Her research combines "the telescope of economics and the microscope of history" with a methodological approach that rejects alike facts without theory and theory without facts. Her research topics include Jewish economic history, marriage markets and dowries in comparative perspective, the empirical analysis of contracts, and the rise of insurance contracts and markets in medieval and Renaissance Italy. 

Her book, The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492, written with Zvi Eckstein and published by Princeton University Press, is the recipient of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in the category of "scholarship" (Nahum Sarna Memorial award), and has been translated in eight languages. She is currently working on two book projects: Price of Love: Marriage Markets in Comparative Perspective, under contract with Princeton University Press, and The Chosen Many: How Demography and Institutions Shaped Jewish History in Eastern Europe, 1500-1850, with Zvi Eckstein and Anat Vaturi, under contract with Princeton University Press (expected publication date: Fall 2024).

She immensely loves teaching Microeconomics to first-year undergraduate students and sharing with them the joy of discoverying how exciting and far-reaching economic theory is when applied to understanding human behavior. 

She earned the Laurea degree in Economics at Università Bocconi in 1990 and the PhD in Economics at Northwestern University in the United States in 1997.

Inspiring motto: volere, potere.