Professoressa ordinaria di scienza delle finanze all’Università Bocconi
Paola Profeta è professoressa ordinaria di scienza delle finanze all’Università Bocconi dove dirige anche l’AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality e il Master of Science in Politics and Public Policy. E’ Presidente della European Public Choice Society e fa parte del board of management dell’International Institute of Public Finance. Fa parte del comitato editoriale di European Journal of Political Economy, International Tax and Public Finance e CESifo Economic Studies.
Laureata con lode in Discipline Economiche e Sociali all’Università Bocconi di Milano, ha ottenuto il PhD in Economia alla Pompeu Fabra University di Barcellona. Prima di far parte della faculty Bocconi, è stata ricercatrice all’Università di Pavia, post-doc all’Università Cattolica di Louvain in Belgio. Ha svolto periodi di ricerca alla Columbia University di New York, Nuffield College-Oxford University, Harvard Kennedy School, CESifo di Monaco, Università di Lugano, Università di Rennes, Università di Edimburgo e Trinity College Dublin.
I suoi interessi di ricerca sono nel campo della economia di genere, dell’economia pubblica, della political economy e dei sistemi di tassazione comparati. Ha pubblicato in riviste internazionali di prestigio tra cui PPNAS, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, Management Science, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Papers, Economic Policy, Journal of Public Economic Theory, International Tax and Public Finance, European Journal of Political Economy, Public Choice e ha scritto libri internazionali pubblicati da Cambridge University Press, Palgrave, Routlegde, Elgar.
La sua ultima monografia “Gender Equality and Public Policy” è stata pubblicata nel 2020 da Cambridge University Press e, in italiano, da Egea.
Ha coordinato progetti di ricerca finanziati da organizzazioni internazionali, fondazioni private, università e centri di ricerca. Ha organizzato numerosi convegni internazionali sul tema delle pari opportunità e della promozione delle carriere femminili. Sullo stesso tema, è attiva nel dibattito nazionale e internazionale. Scrive regolarmente su Il Sole 24 Ore e collabora con La 27esima ora- Corriere della Sera.
Paola Profeta is Full Professor of Public Economics at Bocconi University, director of the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality, research affiliate of CESifo and CHILD and scientific advisor of Unicredit Foundation. She is also the Director of the Master of Science of Politics and Public Policy at Bocconi. Paola is President of the European Public Choice Society and member of the board of management of the International Institute of Public Finance. She is member of the editorial board of European Journal of Political Economy, International Tax and Public Finance and CESifo Economic Studies.
She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a BA in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University. Before joining Bocconi as an associate professor, she was assistant professor at the University of Pavia and post-doc researcher at the Catholic University of Louvain. She has spent research periods at the Columbia University of New York, Nuffield College-Oxford University, Harvard Kennedy School, CESifo- Munich, University of Lugano, University of Rennes, University of Edinburgh and Trinity College Dublin.
Her research focuses on public economics, political economics and gender economics. She has published in leading academic journals, among which PNAS, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, Management Science, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Oxford Economic Papers, Economic Policy, Journal of Public Economic Theory, International Tax and Public Finance, European Journal of Political Economy, Public Choice and she has written several international books, published by Cambridge University Press, Palgrave, Routlegde, Elgar. She is member of the editorial board of European Journal of Political Economy, International Tax and Public Finance and CESifo Economic Studies.
In 2020 she published the book “Gender Equality and Public Policy. Measuring progress in Europe” by Cambridge University Press translated into Italian by Egea.
She has coordinated research projects financed by international organizations, private foundations, universities and research centers. She organizes several international conferences on the topic of gender equality and female leadership. On the same topic, she is active in the national and international debate. She collaborates with the Department of Equal Opportunities of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministries and with numerous associations and institutions engaged in the promotion of gender equality and female leadership. She regularly writes editorials in Il Sole 24 Ore and collaborates with Corriere della Sera- La 27esima Ora.