Short bio

Guido Tabellini is the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair in Political Economics at Università Bocconi. He was Rector of Università Bocconi from 2008 to 2012. He has a PhD in Economics from UCLA. Before returning to Europe, he taught at Stanford University and UCLA. He is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a foreign honorary fellow of the American Economic Association, and a recipient of the Yrjo Jahnsson award from the European Economic Association, of which he was President. He is Second Vice-President of the Econometric Society. He belongs to several international research networks and he is a research fellow of CEPR in London, a distinguished fellow of CES in Munich, and a research fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He has done research in political economics and public choice, macroeconomics, and international economics.