Biography

Tito Boeri is a professor and Director of the Department of Economics at Bocconi University in Milan and Senior Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics (where he was Centennial Professor).
He has been a Senior Economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a consultant for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Commission, the International Labour Office, as well as the Italian Government. From March 2015 to February 2019, he held the position of President of the National Institute of Social Security (INPS).
He is Scientific Advisor to the Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation (www.frdb.org), of which he has been Director since its establishment in 1998. He is a Fellow of the European Economic Association and the European Association of Labour Economists. He is also a Research Fellow of the “Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER Bocconi), the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Centre for Economic Performance in London, the” Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Covid Economics. He has been a columnist for “Il Sole 24 Ore”, “La Stampa”, “la Repubblica” and has collaborated with foreign newspapers such as the “Financial Times” and “Le Monde”.
He is among the founders of the economic information website www.lavoce.info and the federated English-language site www.voxeu.org. He is the Scientific Director of the International Festival of Economics in Turin and Director of “Eco”, a new monthly economics magazine in Italian and English.
Among his books in Italian: Contro i giovani, Mondadori (2007, with V. Galasso); La crisi non è uguale per tutti, Rizzoli (2009); Classe dirigente (which he edited together with A. Merlo and A. Prat), Bocconi University (2010); Le riforme a costo zero, Chiarelettere (2011, with P. Garibaldi); Parlerò solo di calcio, il Mulino (2012); Populismo e stato sociale, Laterza (2017); Riprendiamoci lo Stato, Feltrinelli (2020, with S. Rizzo); Sì Vax. Dialogo tra un pragmatico e un non so, Einaudi (2021, with A. Spilimbergo); PNRR, La grande abbuffata, Feltrinelli (2023, with R. Perotti).