Deputy Department Director at OFCE the Research Center in Economics of Sciences-Po Paris. He holds Ph.Ds in Economics from Columbia University and La Sapienza University of Rome. His main research interests include the relationship between inequality and macroeconomic performance, European macroeconomic policies, and the interaction between structural reforms, fiscal and monetary policies. He published in several international journals and since 2020 he is co-editor of a yearly European Public Investment Outlook.
In 2000 he became a member of the Council of Economic Advisors for the Italian Prime Minister's Office. In 2002 he moved to Paris to work at Sciences Po. He is in charge of the Economics concentration of the Master of European Affairs at Sciences-Po, where he teaches international and European macroeconomics.
He also is Academic Director of the Sciences Po-Northwestern European Affairs Program. He is member of the Scientific Board for the LUISS Institute for European Policy and Analysis (LEAP), in Rome, where he also teaches European macroeconomics. He has taught at INSEAD and at the College of Europe. He regularly does consulting and executive training, and he is involved in the institutional dialogue on macroeconomic policy in the EU. He advises the International Labour Organization (ILO) on macroeconomic policies and employment. He taught several IMF FPA courses.