Giancarlo Spagnolo (M.Phil. Cambridge; Ph.D., Stockholm School of Economics) is Professor of Economics (on leave) at University of Rome Tor Vergata and at SITE - Stockholm School of Economics. He is also research fellow of CEPR, London and ENCORE, Amsterdam, and a non-resident fellow of EIEF. He is an internationally recognized authority on Competition Policy, Public Procurement and related issues. He has published many widely quoted scientific articles in top international academic journals including Econometrica, the Journal of Economic Theory and the RAND Journal of Economics, and has co-edited Cambridge University Press’s Handbook of Procurement. He has also been advising and consulting for many national and international institutions, including the World Bank, the EU Parliament, and the European Commission (several DGs) on antitrust, procurement and anti-corruption issues.