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Details of Professional Career

Present employment: Lead Economist on Private Sector Development at the Inter-American Development Bank, Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division, Washington D.C. (since November 2009)

Academic Tenured Positions:

Currently on leave (since November 2001) Professor of "Economics" at the Law School, University of Rome 3, Italy.
2005-2009: Director of the Centre for Research on the Economics of Institutions (CREI) at the University of Rome 3
November 1998 - November 2001, Associate Professor of Development Economics at the University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy.
November 1991 - November 1998, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Other Professional Assignments:

2009, UNIDO, Evaluation of UNIDO Cluster Development Programs Worldwide, Team Leader, country studies in India and Ethiopia.
2009, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Coordinator of the Task Force for the G8 Development Ministers' Meeting, Rome, June.
2008, TIPS South Africa, Organizer of Workshop on Industrial Policy for the SADC Countries - Workshops in Gaborone (Botswana) and Pretoria.
2008, IFAD, Strategic Consulting to the IFAD Director for Latin America on IFAD Strategy on Biofuels and Climate Change for the Southern Cone of Latin America.
2008, IADB, Identification of projects to support Regional Innovation Systems in Mexican States.
2008, IADB, Support to the design of Competitiveness Programs in Chiles' Northern Regions.
2007, European Commission, Monitoring the ProInvest Programme (8ACPTPS108/17), Projects in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados)
February - May 2006, IFAD, International Fund for Agricultural Development, United Nations, Senior Economist, consultant. Assessment, Paper, and Strategic Policy Advice to Direction for Latin America and the Caribbean on IFAD's Performance-based System for Resources Allocation.
December 2005 - March 2006, OECD Development Centre, Paris, Senior economist consultant; Paper on "Private sector development - Concepts and Best Practices" for project on "Aid for trade and agro-based private sector development in Africa", Publication as Working Paper OECD.
May-December 2005, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Brazil, Team leader, senior economist. Support to the design of Competitiveness Development Programs of selected clusters in Minas Gerais and Pernambuco.
October 2005, CSTD Conference of Science and Technology for Development - UNCTAD, Morocco, Senior Economist, Presentation and paper for Experts' panel on "Bridging The Technology Gap between and within Nations"; http://www.unctad.org/stdev
March - July 2005, CAF (Andean Development Corporation), Venezuela, Senior Economist, Paper on "Small and Medium-sized enterprises in Latin America and the Challenge of Liberalization", background paper for CAF Annual Report 2005.
March 2005, IADB - MIF (Multilateral Investment Fund), Chile, Senior Economist, Final Evaluation of project on "Strengthening productive integration with selected value chains and SMEs".
November 2004 - April 2005, European Commission - RELEX and AIDCO, MERCOSUR, Team Leader to draft the Regional Strategy Paper for EC economic cooperation with MERCOSUR for 2007-13.
April - November 2005, Italy's and Tunisia's Ministries of Industry, Tunisia - Italy,Senior Economist, Study for the creation of a Network of Business Development Service Centres for internationalization.
January-February 2004, IADB - MIF (Multilateral Investment Fund), Chile, Senior Economist, Intermediate Evaluation of project on "Strengthening productive integration with selected value chains and SMEs".
August 2002 - March 2003, Project Leader, Senior Economist for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) study on 'Value Chains and Enterprise Clusters: Lessons and Best Practices from the Latin American Experience'. Leader of a team of 12 researchers from Latin America and Europe. Case-studies in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Italy.
November 2001 - February 2002, Senior Consultant to the European Commission in Bolivia. Project of identification of a Trade Development and Investment Promotion Programme (BOL/AIDCO/2002/0003).
May - November 2001, Senior consultant to Confindustria (Italian Industrialists' Association), paper on "Markets and Sectors' Dynamics in Italy's Competitiveness" for 'The Confindustria Report on Italy's Competitiveness", edited by G.P. Galli and L.Paganetto.
October 2000 - November 2001, Economist, Consultant to ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile) for a paper on "Markets and Business Development Service Centres (BDSC): The Northern Italy Experience and its Relevance for Latin America".
September 2000 - April 2001 Senior consultant to the European Commission - SCR in a project of "Evaluation of Economic Cooperation of the European Union with Asia and Latin America". Team leader for the Latin American sub-component. Report in http://europa.eu.int
October - December 2000 Senior Consultant, UNIDO, background paper for the World Industrial Development Report (WIDR) 2002-03 on "National Industrial Systems in Africa. The Nature and Deficiencies of Technological Effort in African Industry".
July 1999 - May 2000 Senior Economist in a UNCTAD Project (directed by Sanjaya Lall) on "Policies for Transfer of Technology", within the joint (UNCTAD/WTO/ITC). Studies on Uganda, Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania.
September 1999 Senior Economist in an UNCTAD Project in Uganda. Report on 'Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer' as an input for UNCTAD's "Uganda's Investment Policy Review".
October 1998 - April 1999 CEPAL United Nations, Santiago, and International Jacques Maritain Institute, Rome. Scientific Coordinator of the International Seminar on "The Globalization of the Financial Markets and its Effects on the Emerging Countries", Santiago, Chile, 29-31 March 1999, with the Ministry of Finance of Chile, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic Affairs. Joint editor of the proceedings (see publications).
March 1998 - March 2000 Economist in the European Union TSER (Targeted Socio-Economic Research) Project on 'Small and Medium-sized Enterprises SMEs in Europe and East Asia: Competition, Collaboration and Lessons for Policy Support'; Research Network with the University of Edinburgh, the Universities of Oxford, Athens, Jerusalem, the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), and Universities in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Fieldwork in Italy and Taiwan.
September 1998 - February 1999, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London - OECD/DAC (Development Aid Committee). Economist, Senior Consultant for a project on 'Comparative Assessment of Poverty Reduction Policies of Main Donor Countries', for "DAC Network on Poverty Reduction" (http://www.oecd.org/dac/htm/pubs/pov_scop.htm). In charge of the Italy case-study.
September 1993-September 1996. Human Capital and Mobility Project, European Union (Contract No. ERBCHRXCT930302) on 'Endogenous Growth, Technological Change and Interdependence', with Manchester Metropolitan University, the Queen's University of Belfast, the OFCE in Paris, the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and the Catholic University of Piacenza.
November 1997 - February 1998, Economist, senior consultant to the European Commission, DG1B, for a project on "Comparative Analysis of Services in the European Union and Chile". Field-work in Chile.
September 1997 and June 1998, Economist, senior consultant (Trade Policy and Integration Adviser) for the European Commission (DGVIII), "Transitory Trade and Investment Development Programme" to the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Namibia.
July - October 1997, Economist, senior consultant to the European Commission, DG1B, for a project on "Comparative Analysis of Services in the European Union and MERCOSUR". Field-work in the MERCOSUR i.e. Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
April - September 1997. Economist, senior consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) for a project on "Promotion of Small Business Competitiveness and Regional Integration in the MERCOSUR Countries". Field-work in MERCOSUR.
February - June 1997, European Commission, DG 1B, Economist consultant in a project of "Evaluation of Regional Cooperation of the European Union in Latin America". Report in http://europa.eu.int.
February 1996 - December 1997 Economist in the European Union TSER (Targeted Socio-Economic Research) Project on 'Science and Technology Policies in Developing Countries', with the University of Oxford (Professor Sanjaya Lall), Athens, Venice, and the d'Agliano Centre, Turin. Field-work in Turkey in October 1996.
October 1996, Consultant to UNIDO, Investment and Technology Promotion Division, to contribute to the preparation of a Subprogramme of training and activities on Technology Transfer Management.
April 1996, consultant to UNCTAD, Division for Science and Technology, rapporteur at a Workshop on 'Technology Partnership for Capacity-Building and Competitiveness', Helsinki, 10-12 April 1996.
October-November 1995, Economist, Consultant to Fondazione CENSIS, Rome, where he directed a team in charge of drafting a report on "Past, Present and Future of Europe-Asia Technology Exchanges".
March-May 1995, Economist, Team Leader of an EU-EES-TACIS Policy Advice Programme to the Government of Armenia on: 'Industrial Policy: Restructuring of Strategic Sectors, Armenia'. Field mission in Armenia for two weeks.
April 1995, consultant to UNCTAD, Division for Science and Technology, rapporteur at a Workshop on 'Selected Cooperation Aspects for Technological Capacity-Building in Developing Countries', Geneva, 10-12 April 1995.
April-September 1995, Consultant to UNCTAD, Division for Science and Technology, for a paper on 'Promoting technological partnership among small and medium-sized enterprises as a means to fostering entrepreneurship and technological capacities'.
Sept.-Oct.1994, Trade Systems Specialist, consultant to The World Bank, on a Project on: 'Business Development Action Plan in Ethiopia'. Field-Mission in Ethiopia.
June-July 1994, Consultant to European Commission DG 8 on an 'Evaluation of the European Community support to the Structural Adjustment Programme in Ghana. Assessment of the impact of structural adjustment on the private sector". Fieldwork in Ghana.
March-April 1994, Consultant to European Commission DG 8 on a project 'Enhancing Enterprise Privatization and Restructuring in Ghana. Identification and draft of a plan of action for the European Community'. Field-work in Ghana.
April-September 1994, Consultant to UNIDO for a training programme for the 'Zambia Investment Center'. Lecturing and training activities on 'Technology Transfer'. Two visits in Zambia, in April and September.
April-June 1992, Consultant to IRELA (Institute for European-Latin American Relations, Madrid) for a project on 'The Impact of the Single European Market on Latin America'. Paper on 'Latin America in the Global Economic Context of the 1990s'.
February-May 1992, lecturer in 'Industrial Development in LDCs' at the Development Administration Programme, organized by the Institute for University Cooperation (ICU) and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
May 1990- December 1993, Italian National Research Council (CNR) researcher in the National Project on: 'The Internationalization of Italian Enterprises'. Results published in Bagella M. (ed.), Internazionalizzazione della piccola e media impresa in America latina, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1996.
August-October 1991, Consultant to CeSPI (Centre for Studies on International Politics, Rome) in a project on 'Official Development Assistance: Criteria for new policy directions', sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
March 1991-April 1992 (ECLAC - United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile). Economist in a multinational research group to assess the functioning and the results of the Treaty of Cooperation between Italy and Argentina.
November 1989-July 1990, Consultant, Co-ordinator of the Research Dept. of the Institute for International Economic Cooperation and Development (ICEPS, Rome). Surveys and reports on several Argentine industrial sectors, International conference on the macroeconomic effects of the European Union on the economic relations between the Latin American countries and the EEC (ECLAC, Santiago, Chile, 25-26 October 1990).
January 1989-March 1989. Consultant to the Joint Industry and Technology Division of CLAC/UNIDOE for a project on 'Dynamic Comparative Advantages and Developing Countries'. Paper on export diversification in Chile, presented in a seminar at ECLAC and then published in Estudios e Informes de la CEPAL No.84.
August 1988-January 1989. Consultant at the DOS MUNDOS consulting agency in Santiago, Chile. Financing from IFDA (International Fund for Development Alternatives, Geneva) and ECLAC.
March 1985-September 1986. Consultant to the Research Dept. of Finmeccanica S.p.a. Rome. Industry surveys, reports on the international trade of the metalworking sector.
October 1985-September 1986. Contributor to research to the CNR project on 'The Structure and Evolution of the Italian Economy'.

AWARDS AND OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

University of Oxford, UK, Senior Research Associate, Sanjaya Lall Programme for Technology and Management for Development.
Istanbul, Ministry of Industry, Invited Speaker at Cluster Conference, November 2008.
University of Peking, Beijing, Chine, Invited Speaker at International Cluster Conference (July 2006) http://www.oec.pku.edu.cn/icrd/
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Programme in Economics, University of Rome 3 (since 2004).
Invited Speaker to International Textile Trade Fair, Taipei, Taiwan (October 2005).
Invited Honorary Lecture at IBERPYME Meeting on "SMEs and Productive Integration", Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (November 2003).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Master ALFA in 'Economics of the Internationalization of Business and Finance' (1997-98). University of Rome Tor Vergata, with Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, Universidad de Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil, Universidad Javeriana, Santa Fe de Bogotà, Colombia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
CNR (National Research Council) scholar at the International Centre for Economics and Development Studies (CEIS), University of Rome Tor Vergata (April 1990-April 1991).
British Council scholar (Foreign and Commonwealth Office Award) at the University of Oxford (1988-89).
CNR scholar at Linacre College, Oxford, scholarship n.203.10.21 (1986-87)