Giovanni Facchini is a professor of economics at the University of Nottingham and the director of the Nottingham Centre for Globalization and Economic Policy. He is also a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the CES-Ifo Institute, and Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). His research has focused on three main themes: the economics and politics of international migration; international trade policy, and more recently the economics of race and gender. A fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Facchini’s scholarly work has been published in the leading outlets in economics, and has been supported – among others – by grants by the ESRC, the European Commission, the NORFACE consortium, the Volkswagen Stiftung, and the World Bank. He has served as consultant to the IMF, the OECD, and the World Bank.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and a Laurea in economics from the University of Trento.
