Bio
Cecilia Jona-Lasinio is Full Professor of Applied Economics at LUISS Business School in Rome Italy. She served as Senior Economic Advisor in the OECD Economics Department (2022-2025), where she coordinated the task force for the joint OECD-Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance project on multilateral cooperation for structural reforms, and as Senior Economic Advisor to the Italian G20 Presidency (2020-2021). She previously held senior research roles at Istat, Italy's national statistics institute.
Her research focuses on the digital economy, artificial intelligence, intangible capital, productivity measurement and the green and digital transitions. She currently coordinates the Global INTAN-Invest project with the World Intellectual Property Organization and has led or contributed to numerous EU-funded research projects. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. In 2017 she was a co-recipient of the Indigo Prize for the essay "Improving GDP: Demolishing, Repointing or Extending?"