Programme Coordinator
Carlo Ciccarelli
Carlo Ciccarelli is Professor of Economic History at the Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He teaches Applied Economics, Economic History, and European Economic History (in Italian and in English). He is the author of several publications in international journals of economics and economic history. He is associate editor of the Rivista di Storia Economica. His research interests include industrial development, structural change, economic dynamics, and the historical origins (human capital, infrastructure, demography, institutions) of regional divides.
He is the author of numerous reconstructions of historical statistics for the Italian economy.
Admission Team
Juha Tolvanen
Juha Tolvanen is an assistant professor of economics at the Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Rome Tor Vergata where he teaches industrial organization and game theory. His research interests are mainly in industrial organization and political economy with a particular focus on strategic communication, algorithmic advice, and contracting between firms. Juha earned his PhD from Princeton University, and before joining Tor Vergata he worked at the University of Vienna.
Student Relations Director
Martina Conticelli
Martina Conticelli (1974) is Professor in Public Law at Tor Vergata University, Faculty of Economics, in Rome where she is currently teaching Economic Public Law. She graduated cum laude in Administrative Law at La Sapienza University, Rome, in 1998 and got her Ph.D in Administrative Law at the same University in 2003. In 2000 and in 2001, she was Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College (Oxf. Univ.-Uk). She is responsible for the unit on Internal Market and Competition policy within the Master in European Economy and International Finance (Tor Vergata). She currently gives lectures within the Masters Program on Antitrust e Regolazione dei Mercati (Tor Vergata). She coordinated, together with L. Casini, the Osservatorio sull’attività normativa del Governo, published on Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico. Her research interests focus on competition, regulation, public utilities, privatizations and liberalizations, global governance, global and European administrative law.
Member
Natalia Gusmerotti
An Associate Professor of Sustainability Management at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she teaches courses on Sustainable Business Model Innovation, Contemporary Management, Management of Innovation, and Sustainable Innovation. Additionally, she engages extensively in postgraduate, doctoral, and executive programs, focusing on Circular Economy Management, Communication of Sustainability Science, and Sustainable and Circular Supply Chain Management.
Her academic journey started at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, where she coordinated the Circular Economy and Natural Capital Management research group from 2011 to 2022, and with which she maintains an affiliation. Over her career, she has led numerous nationally and internationally funded research projects dedicated to circular economy, resource efficiency, biodiversity conservation, and climate change adaptation. Her collaborative research has been published in respected international journals, and she serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management.
As a scholar and educator, she actively bridges theory and practice, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations, guiding doctoral research, and promoting educational initiatives to drive innovation and impactful change toward sustainability.
Admission Team
Tommaso Proietti
Tommaso Proietti is Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy. He earned the PhD degree from University of London after studies at the University of Perugia, Italy, and the London School of Economics, UK. His main research interests are in time series analysis, state space models and frequency domain methods, with applications to macroeconomic and financial time series. He has published his research in statistical and econometrics journals including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometric Theory, the Annals of Applied Statistics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of Time Series Analysis, Econometric Reviews, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (A and C). He is currently an associate editor of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis and co-Editor of Statistical Methods and Applications.