ANNIVERSARY GALA - National Italian American Foundation

NIAF Supports
The 2011 Fulbright Chair of Italian Studies at
Georgetown University
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The National Italian American Foundation is proud to support the 2011 Distinguished
Fulbright Chair of Italian Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Daniele Checchi is the dean of the School of Political Science at the University of
Milan and a Full Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics, also at
the University of Milan.
He has been a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn,
Germany, since 2003, and served as a scientific director of the Work Training and Welfare
Research Center of the University of Milan. He is a member of the E.E.A. (European
Association of Economists), E.A.E.P.E (European Association of Labor Economists) and
s.A.S.E (Society of the Advancement of Socioeconomics).
Dr. Checchi holds a degree in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, a Master of
Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a Doctorate of
Philosophy in Economics from the University of Siena, Italy. He has published a number
of books on economic theory and education and has been published in numerous international
economic journals.
He is currently the Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Georgetown University in a joint
program sponsored by BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown
University’s Italian Department, and the National Italian American Foundation, through
which he is teaching the following courses: “Italy and the Idea of Europe” and “Institutional
Differences Between Europe and the U.s.”
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The 2011 NIAF Gala