ERC: Alessia Russo

Alessia Russo is Full Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padua, Research Affiliate of the Centre or Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a member of the Governing Council of the Galilean School of Higher Education. She holds a B.A. from the University of Florence, an MSc from the Toulouse School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bologna. After completing her doctorate, she joined the Department of Economics at the University of Oslo as a Postdoctoral Researcher, and later at the Norwegian Business School as Assistant Professor. During her years in Norway, she collaborated with international research teams supported by the European Research Council (ERC). She returned to Italy in 2021 to join the University of Padua as Assistant Professor; she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2023 and to Full Professor in 2025.  Her research sits at the intersection of macroeconomics and political economy, with a particular focus on dynamic public finance and the economic consequences of intergenerational conflict. She also works in environmental economics, especially on the design of optimal international environmental agreements. Her work has received support from several competitive funding schemes, including the STARS@UNIPD initiative (University of Padua, 2021) and a 2022 PRIN grant from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR). Her research has been published in leading peer reviewed journals such as The Journal of Political Economy, The Journal of the European Economic Association, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and The American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.