Assist. Prof. Piergiuseppe Fortunato (Ph.D.)  

Fields of Research: Economic Development, Political Economy, International Trade

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Tel: 0312 386 10 92 / Internal: 1952

Office: Main Campus, 9th Floor

   

Piergiuseppe Fortunato is currently an economist at the United Nation Conference for Trade and Development where he leads projects on economic integration and Global Value Chains. He has worked at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva. In the past he held academic positions at the University of Bologna and the Universitè de Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne). His research interests include economic development, political economics and international trade. In these fields he has published in journals like the Journal of Economic Growth, The Economic Journal and the European Economic Review. He is also heavily involved in policy-oriented research; he edited a volume on post-conflict recovery for Bloomsbury Academic, published on policy journals like Global Policy and regularly contributes to several blogs.