Institutional positions: Andrea Roventini, full professor of Political Economy, has been elected as the new director of the Institute of Economics; he will be in charge until December 18, 2026
Best wishes and congratulations from the entire academic community. "My goal is to continue the development of the Institute founded by Giovanni Dosi and contribute to the School's mission of building a more equitable and sustainable society"
New director of the Institute of Economics at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies: he is Andrea Roventini, full professor of Political Economy, whose mandate has just begun and will end on December the 18th, 2026. To Andrea Roventini - who succeeds Alessandro Nuvolari, full professor of Economic History - came the best wishes for good work and the congratulations from the entire academic community.
"I am very happy for my election. It is a great responsibility: the Institute of Economics of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies founded by Giovanni Dosi", comments Andrea Roventini, "is at the highest level of scientific research in Italy, as confirmed by the last VQR (Research Quality Assessment) and by the recent win of an ERC (European Research Council) project. My goal is to continue this path of development, contributing to the mission of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies to build a more equitable and sustainable society".
Andrea Roventini's main research interests include the analysis of complex systems, computational economics based on heterogeneous agents, economic growth, business cycles and crises, innovation and structural change, climate change, and the study of the effects of monetary, fiscal, innovation, industrial and policies to face climate change. The new director of the Institute of Economics at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies has published in prestigious international scientific journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Nature Climate Change, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Journal of Applied Econometrics.
Andrea Roventini has participated in a numerous European Commission projects and was also the coordinator of the European H2020 project "Growth Welfare Innovation Productivity" (GROWINPRO), with a consortium of eleven international universities and three national statistics offices, which provided a detailed analysis of the causes of Europe's low growth in recent decades and developed a new set of economic policies to revive sustainable, inclusive, innovation-driven growth. Andrea Roventini was also coordinator of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies unit in the Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition (EEIST) project, together with British, Italian, Brazilian, Chinese and Indian universities and research institutes, funded by the U.K. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation. The project developed new tools based on complexity science to support government economic policy decisions in the area of innovation and green transition.
