Assistant Professor in Public Policy, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge

Alessio Terzi is an economist working at the intersection of academia, policy and think-tanks. His research interests include economic growth, climate change, economic history, and political economy. He is the author of Growth for Good (Harvard University Press): a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year, and a Financial Times summer reading favourite.

He is an Economist at DG ECFIN of the European Commission, where he works on competitiveness, industrial policy, and the macroeconomics of the European Green Deal. In addition to his role at the University of Cambridge he is also an Adjunct Professor in Economics at Sciences Po and at HEC Paris. Prior to this, he was Affiliate Fellow at Bruegel, the leading European economics think-tank, and Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School.

He has work experience from the European Central Bank's EU institutions division and in sovereign risk analysis from BMI Research (Fitch Ratings). His policy work and commentaries have been featured in leading media outlets including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC World News, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Tagesschau, Corriere della Sera, RAI, Project Syndicate, Foreign Policy, VoxEU, Les Echos, France Culture, and Arte.

Alessio obtained a PhD from the Hertie School with a thesis on economic growth, under the supervision of Henrik Enderlein, Dani Rodrik, and Jean Pisani-Ferry. He holds an MPA in economic policy from the London School of Economics, and a BSc in international economics from Bocconi University.