Biography

Alessandro Ruggieri is a macroeconomist working in the fields of labor economics and development economics. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Barcelona School of Economics in 2019, and joined the IAE-CSIC in 2026 as a "Ramón y Cajal" Research Fellow. Previously, he held positions at the University of Nottingham and CUNEF Universidad. He also worked as a consultant for the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). He has been the recipient of several research grants as Principal Investigator, including a “Social Science Research Grant” by the Fundación Ramón Areces for the project “Misallocation, inequality, and economic development”, and the “Special Research Grants: COVID-19” for the project “Twin Peaks: COVID-19 and the Labor Market".

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