Background & Contacts

Professional Experiences

  • 2024 - : GTA in Social Statistics, Department of Political Sciences and Communication, Sapienza University of Rome

  • 2024 - : Research Fellow at University Consortium for Socioeconomic Research and the Environment (OIPA)

  • 2022 - 2023: Worked with the ENVI Committee of the European Parliament on legislative, research, and administrative tasks

  • 2021 - 2023: Research collaboration with the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) in Italy

  • 2020 - 2021: Parliamentary Assistant and Press Officer at the Italian Parliament – Chamber of Deputies

Collaborations with Various Institutions:

  • Internship at UNCTAD in the Commodities Division

  • Research and Communication Trainee at the Stockholm Environment Institute - SEI and the Swedish Development Research Network

  • Internship in Ocean Literacy, Research, and Communication at UNESCO for the UN Ocean Decade Decennio del Mare

Education

  • 2023 - Present: Ph.D. in Development Economics at the Department of Social and Economic Sciences

  • 2020 - 2022: MSc. in Economics and Business Management - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

  • 2020 - 2022: MSc. in Agri-Food Economics and Management - Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan

  • 2017 - 2020: BSc in International Studies, Development, and Cooperation from the University of Turin

    • 2019: Erasmus Exchange - Winter Program at SciencesPo Lille (France)

Courses, Scholarships, and Awards

  • 2024: University of Ghent - Summer School in Experiments in Development Economics

  • 2024: International School for advanced training “Impact Evaluation of Development Policies (IEDP): Concepts, methods, applications”

  • 2023: IFAD “Impact Assessment” - e-learning course

  • 2023: Food Systems Course, Wageningen University (The Netherlands) - selected

  • 2022: Project Management Course offered by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) - selected

  • 2022: European Forum Alpbach, Alpbach (Austria) - Scholarship winner and Italian representative

  • 2022: University of Bonn Summer School - “Introduction to Experimental Economics”

  • 2021: University of Bonn Summer School - “Learning Policy Impacts from Data: Applied Econometrics of Causal Inference”

Contact

  • 📧 📫 Email: alessandro.giacardi[at]uniroma1.it