is Professor of Economics at Sapienza University (Rome) and Director of the Master and Ph.D Programs in Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University (New York) and his areas of expertise are macro and international economics. He has published in leading scholarly journals such as The Journal of International Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and Journal of Banking and Finance.
He is member of the Advisory Board at the Department of Treasury of the Ministry of Economy and Finance where he consults for the development and use of econometric models of the Italian Treasury. He has also consulted for the development of statistical models at the State General Accounting Department (RGS) to forecast financial flows between Italy and the EU Institutions (between 2004 and 2013). He has served as Economic counsellor of the Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Italian Council of the Ministers, Mr. Enrico Letta (2006 – 2008). Before joining academia in 1996, he has worked at the Bank of Italy as Economist in the Research Department (1995 – 1996) and at the World Bank (Washington D.C.; 1993).

He has been Visiting Professor at the Beijing Normal University, the China Academy of Social Science (Beijing, China) and the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).