Affiliate Professor
Istituto di Management
Francesco Grillo
Bio
Francesco Grillo graduated with laude in Economics at LUISS University (ROME), before getting an MBA from Boston University as a Fullbright Scholar. He also holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is Visiting Fellow at the The European University Institute and he has been fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and at St. Antony's College (University of Oxford). He has been advisor to the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. Currently, he is Affiliate Professor at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa and teaches and at the University of International Business Economics in Beijing.
Managing Director of Vision and Value, the management consulting firm, advising strategies to major institutions (including the European Commission and Italian Ministry of Economy) and multinationals. He is also columnist for Corriere della Sera, Linkiesta, and The Guardian, and a regular guest on La7, SkyTG24 and RaiNews24. He is also Director of the think tank Vision.
Ricerca
Political Economy, European Studies, Policy Evaluation, Innovation Policies, Smart Participation, Democracy, Endogenous growth theory, Comparative politics. Focus on how the relationships amongst (and defintions of) innovation, institutions and economic systems is changing in an Internet era.