WORK EXPERIENCE
2022
ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands
Lecturer, European Master in Law and Economics.
2014-2018; 2021
Consultant, France, Germany, India, Italy, Montenegro, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
- He has helped multinationals, startups, governments and NGOs develop behavior- and evidence-based projects and systems. He coordinated behavior change interventions.
2019-2021
MUNICIPALITY OF ROME, Italy
R2 – Department of Behavioral Policies
Founder and CEO
- He founded and coordinated the first governmental unit of behavioral insights in Italy.
- he Coordinated over 50 initiatives and evaluated policies, using field, natural and online experiments; DID, IV analysis; surveys (CAWI, CATI); biomarkers; electroencephalogram, eye-tracking, galvanic skin response. Areas of intervention: smart cities, tax compliance, productivity, well-being, environmental protection, democratic processes, transport and public transit, public health, social services, culture, communication, infrastructure.
- Founder and coordinator of ATACx, the behavioral analysis unit of the public transport company (ATAC).
2020
SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME, Italy
Department of Economics
Visiting Professor, lecturer at the Master’s in Public Economics.
2020
UNIVERSITY OF MILAN-BICOCCA, Italy
Department of Social Sciences
Visiting Professor, lecturer at the Master in Behavioral Public Policy.
2017-2018 MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, Italy
Advisor to the Secretary of State
Appointed to advise the Secretary on behavioral policies. Head of the behavioral economics agenda. This included:
- Curator of behavioral sciences for the National Circular Economy Plan.
- Delegate, G7 Environment, G7 ICT and Industry.
PUBLICATIONS
- “Evaluating COVID-19 public health messaging in Italy: Self-reported compliance and growing mental health concerns.” (with Gary King et al.) 2020.
- “The role of mortality salience on acceptance and demand of a COVID-19 vaccine” (working paper) 2020.
Other:
- “Regulatory policy and COVID-19: Behavioral insights for fast-paced decision making” (curated Italy country section), OECD.
PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS
- May 2020: “COVID-19: opportunities for behavioral policy”. (with Pete Lunn and Maria Messick). Annual Conference of the Behavioral Science & Policy Association.
- Dec 2019: “Can nudge theory improve citizens’ responsiveness? Evidence from Rome Municipality”. XVI AISC Annual Conference “THE COMPLEXITY OF COGNITION: MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO HUMAN BEHAVIOUR” (could not present due to unexpected government assignments; presented by Paolo Di Giamberardino), Rome, Italy.
- Sept 2017: Keynote, “Machine-human borders and substitution of the other in relationships: a behavioral analysis in the era of artificial intelligence” Erich Fromm International Foundation. Prato, Italy.
- Aug 2017: Center for Behavioral Experiments (CEBEX), Behavioral Public Policy – Summer School.
GOALS
- 2016: Award of Distinction, Government of Assam, India
- 2014: List of Deans for the Academic Year, NYU USA
AFFILIATIONS
2020-2021
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL, USA
Behavioral Insight Group (BIG), Mentoring Program
Mentor
2020
UNITED NATIONS/OECD, USA
International COVID-19 Working Group for Behavioral Insights
Member
2020
INTERNATIONAL COVID-19 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE WORKING GROUP, ItalyUSA
Founder and Coordinator
- Founded the first international behavioral science working group for COVID-19, with over 40 members (from Harvard, Princeton, LSE, MIT, Oxford, Monash, Bocconi and other academic bodies, private sector and government; PI: Gary King).
- He conducted experiments on closures, wearing masks, washing hands, etc.
- Strategy planning and production of materials for the communication of the UNDP Rome Office / African Center for Climate and Sustainable Development on COVID-19. The materials were also shared more widely with the UN agency security team based in Italy.
2018- CORE GROUP, Washington DC USA
Social and behavioral change working group
Member
2014-2018
INSTITUTE FOR NEW ECONOMIC THOUGHT (INET), New York USA
Young Scholars Initiative (YSI)
Young scholar
2014-2015
RETHINKING ECONOMICS NEW YORK, New York USA
Organizing Committee
- he Organized a panel on the relationship of social psychological mechanisms in companies, highlighting the oversimplification of profit maximization.
- Responsible for content with Nobel laureates Mike Spence and Paul Krugman for the RENY conference.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2018
UNITAR, UNDP, A WOMEN, New York USA
Behavioral Insights at the United Nations
Invited participant
2018
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, New York USA
Why behavioral insights matter to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Participant by invitation
2018
A WOMEN, New York USA
Behavioral insights and gender equality
Invited participant
2017
GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL, Kolkata India
Bengal Global Trade Summit (BGBS)
Delegate
2018
Unitar, UNDP, UN Women USA
Behavioral Insights at the United Nations
Invited participant
2014
INSTITUTE FOR NEW ECONOMIC THINKING, Toronto Canada
The human after all: innovation, disruption, society
Invited young scholar
INSTRUCTION
2014
New York University, USA
Degree in Economics (specialization) and Mathematics (specialization)
Research thesis: Debiasing Framing Effects: Susceptibility and Awareness
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DISCLOSURE WRITINGS
“Circular Economy and Behavioral Economics”, Startupitalia!, 2018.
“I change, therefore I am”, Corriere della Sera, section “THE VISION”, 2017.
NON-ACADEMIC LECTURES
- TEDx Treviso 2020
- Panelist, “ESG Capacity Building – The Three Epochs Of Sustainable Investment: Where Are You?”, TBLI CONFERENCE™, Nasdaq. 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.
- “The Economy of the Future”, Volvo. 2018, Milan, Italy.
- “Digitization and the challenge sustainability: how to exploit new technologies to find effective solutions?”. Business Integration Partners (Bip) & Courier Innovation 2018. Rome, Italy.
- Juror, “Changemaker Competition”, InVento Innovation Lab, Banca Prossima (Intesa Sanpaolo), Nativa, B Labs. Milan, Italy.
- Panelist, “Opportunity Day: internationalization and behavioral economics”, International Labor Summit. Vicenza, Italy
INTERVIEWS
- “Near Real-Time Studies Look for Behavioral Measures Vital to Stopping Coronavirus”, Scientific American, 2020.
- “The Nudge approach” KPMG Impacting the Future, 2020.
- “Rome: the Municipality tries the psychological approach. And it works”. Business Insider, 2020.
LANGUAGES
English, Italian, Spanish, and French. He speaks Swedish and Serbo-Croatian.