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International Migration (CARIM) and Director of the Migration Summer School. He has been
Director of the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo,
senior researcher and head of the Migration and Minorities Unit at the French National Institute
for Demographic Studies in Paris, visiting profes sor at Harvard, and the Director of the Centre for
Economic Legal and Social Studies (CEDEJ) in Cairo. His research interests include migration and
refugee movements, population and politics in Muslim countries, family building, and demography
and development. He has extensively published on these topics and lectured in a number of
universities in Europe, America, Africa and the Middle East.
Matthias Finger is director of the Transport Area of the Florence School of Regulation. He holds a
Ph.D. in political science from the University of Geneva and has been an assistant professor at Syracuse
University (New York), an associate professor at Columbia University (New York), Professor
of Management of Public Enterprises at the Swiss Federal Institute of Public Administration and,
since 2002, Professor of Management of Network Industries at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in
Lausanne, Switzerland. He is also a member of both the Swiss railways and Swiss electricity regulatory
authorities. His main research interest is on the liberalisation, re-regulation, and governance of
infrastructures in the transport, energy, and communications sectors. He is the co-editor-in-chief
of the Journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries.
Giorgia Giovannetti is full professor of Economics at the University of Florence and part time professor
at the RSCAS where she is directing the research strand on development for the Global Governance
Programme. From 2008 until 2011 she was the principal investigator of the First and Second
European Reports on Development (for the European Commission and seven Member States,). She
holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cambridge and has previously held positions at
the Universities of Cambridge (Fellow of Trinity College) and Rome. She has been visiting professor
at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and New York University (Africa House). She has worked
extensively on development issues (social protection and countries in situation of fragility in sub
Saharan Africa, foreign direct investments and growth), on the link between trade and foreign direct
investments in developed as well as developing and emerging countries, on international economic
policy and on firms’ dynamics. She has published articles in the European Economic Review, the Review
of Economic Dynamics, Applied Economics, The World Economy, Review of Financial Development
amongst others. She directed the Research Centre of the Italian Trade Institute (2005-2007)
and has been advising its President for the past 5 years. She has also been an advisor for the Italian
Treasury and the Ministry of Foreign Trade. She is the scientific coordinator of the Fondazione Manlio
Masi, observatory on the internationalisation of small firms, fellow of the Luca D’Agliano Research
Center in Turin, member of a working group of the Center for Global Development (on reform of the
Rome based Agencies) and of a OECD working group on globalization.
Jean-Michel Glachant is Director of the Florence School of Regulation and Holder of the Loyola
de Palacio Chair since 2008. He was appointed full Professor in Economics at La Sorbonne in
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