Alberto Quadrio Curzio

“Pandemics, Women and the Global South”: Introductory reflections on a special journal issue (EPOL) President Emeritus of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

Professor Alberto Quadrio Curzio is an Italian economist whose work has concentrated largely on institutional political economy and economic structural development at both the theoretical and policy stages. He is President Emeritus of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Italian academy of sciences and humanities; and Professor Emeritus in Political Economy at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (he was Full Professor from 1976 to 2010 and Dean of the Faculty of Political Science from 1989 to 2010).

He founded CRANEC (research centre of economic analysis and international economic development) in 1977 and was its director till 2010. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Financial History at the University of Cambridge and President of the Italian Economics Association. He is President of the International Balzan Prize Foundation and sits on various Boards and Committees including: Fondazione Edison, Aspen Institute Italia and the publishing house Il Mulino. In 1984 he founded and became Editor-in-Chief of Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics. He currently writes articles and editorials for Huffington Post Italia. He is an Ambassador for OWSD and a member of the Steering Committee of TWAS, the World Academy of Sciences.