Andrea Antonio Caragliu

SECS-P/06 - Applied economics

Andrea Caragliu is Associate Professor of Regional and Urban Economics at Politecnico di Milano since 2018. He holds a Ph.D. in Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam, 2015, and a Ph.D. in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2010. The dissertation has been awarded the Merit Prize of the EU Committee of the Regions Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation and Diploma d’Onore AISRe for the best doctoral dissertation in Regional Science “Giorgio Leonardi” 2010.

Since 2019 he acts as Executive Director of the Regional Science Association International, for which he previously edited the Newsletter. He is also Associate Editor for Plos ONE, and Book Review Editor for Papers in Regional Science. Since 2018 he acts as Deputy Director of the Master of Science Degree in Management of Built Environment (LM-24) at Politecnico di Milano.

He is member and, for the 2013-2016 term, auditor of the Italian Regional Science Association (AISRe), and he is also member of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA), the American Economic Association (AEA), and the European Urban Research Association (EURA).

He has been visiting scholar at the Spatial Economics Department of the Free University of Amsterdam, 2008-2009. He has been involved in a several research projects, especially at European level, financed by the ESPON programme, FP7 and FP6, and the European Commission directly. Currently he serves as book review editor for Papers in Regional Science and Co-Editor of the RSAI Newsletter.