Pietro Reichlin is a professor of economics at Luiss Guido Carli, a Research Fellow at EIEF and CEPR. He is a member of the advisory board of Research in Economics and Rivista di Politica Economica, and as the director of the Luiss PhD in Economics and the Rome Master in Economics. He earned a PhD in Economics from Columbia University and taught at the universities of Naples, Chieti, Rome La Sapienza. He has been Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, University of California Los Angeles, Columbia University.