Luca Tiberti ha conseguito un dottorato di ricerca in economia dello sviluppo presso l'Università di Firenze (2008). I suoi principali interessi di ricerca sono la microeconomia applicata, la povertà e l'impatto socio-economico degli shock climatici. Ha lavorato tra il 2008 e il 2010 come ricercatore presso il Centro di Ricerca Innocenti dell'UNICEF. Dopo tre anni di ricerca presso il Centro di Ricerca Innocenti dell'UNICEF, è entrato a far parte del PEP e dell'Università Laval nel gennaio 2011. Durante il suo periodo a Laval, è passato da ricercatore post-dottorato (2011-2013) a ricercatore (2013-2015), a assistant professor (2016-2021) ed, infine a professore associate (2021). Dal novembre 2020 è assistant professor presso il Dipartimento di Economia dell'Università di Firenze. Dal 2015 è direttore scientifico del gruppo di ricerca di analisi delle micro politiche di PEP (PMMA), persona risorsa, e membro del comitato di programma di PEP. È stato il direttore del microprogramma graduate PEP-Laval University in Economia applicata dello sviluppo (2018-2021). Ha pubblicato su riviste quali The Economic Journal, Economic Development and Cultural Change, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, World Development, Review of Income and Wealth, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Economics of Transition e Journal of African Economies.

CV completo: link

POSIZIONI ACCADEMICHE E DI RICERCA

• since 2020     Assistant Professor (RTDb), Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence
• since 2015     Research Director of the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) Research Group “Microeconomic Analysis”
• since 2011     Resource person, Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) (mentored 30+ research teams from developing)
• 2021             Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Université Laval
• 2016 – 2021  Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Université Laval
• 2018-2021    Director of the graduate microprogramme in Applied Development Economics, joint initiative Partnership for                          Economic Policy (PEP)-Université Laval, including three distance courses (in English/French):
  • ECN-6990 “Computable General Equilibrium modelling”
  • ECN-6991 “Policy Impact Analysis”
  • ECN-6992 “Measuring and Alleviating Poverty and Inequality”
  • ECN-6993 “Gender Analysis in Economic Policy Research” (since 2021)
• 2019 (December) Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Florence

POSIZIONI DI RICERCA PASSATE E ESPERIENZE DI FORMAZIONE

• 2013-2015 Researcher, Department of Economics, Université Laval
• 2010 Social Policy Officer, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC)
• 2008-2009 Full-time consultant, UNICEF-IRC (Socio-Economic Policy Analysis)
  2007 Visiting researcher, UNICEF South Africa and Human Science Research Council (HSRC)
• 2004, 2006, 2007 Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Florence

ISTRUZIONE

• 2011-2012 Post-doc research fellow, Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économique et l’Emploi (CIRPÉE), Université Laval, Canada (supervisor : Prof. Jean-Yves Duclos)
• 2005-2008 Ph.D. in Development Economics, University of Florence, Italy
• 1998-2003 B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Laurea) – Summa cum laude and honours, University of Florence

FINANZIAMENTI

• Donor: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
  Title: Evidence to mitigate socio-economic impacts and promote recovery from COVID-19
  Applicant and co-applicants: J. Mariara, M. Alain, M. L. Alzua, M. Chitiga, J. Cockburn, L. Tiberti through the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
  Period: 2020-2023
  Total Budget: 1,200,000 CAD$
  Partners: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)’s headquarters (Nairobi, Kenya), Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina) and University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
  Role: Director of the Microeconomic analysis group, member of the Programme Committee and research mentor 

• Donor: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
  Title: Building Research Capacity in Low-Income Countries through Policy Analysis on Growth and Employment (PAGE II) – extension on “Gender-sensitive Analysis on Entrepreneurship and Financial Inclusion, and Rural Employment”
  Applicant and co-applicants: J. Mariara, M. Alain, M. L. Alzua, M. Chitiga, J. Cockburn, C. Reyes, L. Tiberti through the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
  Period: 2019-2021
  Total Budget: 2,200,000 CAD$
  Partners: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)’s headquarters (Nairobi, Kenya), Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina), Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (DLSU-AKI) (Manila, Philippines) and University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
  Role: Director of the Microeconomic analysis group, member of the Programme Committee and research mentor 

• Donor: Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
  Title: Climate change in Africa: Impacts and responses for women and girls
  Applicant and co-applicants: J. Mariara, M. Alain, M. L. Alzua, M. Chitiga, J. Cockburn, L. Tiberti through the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
  Period: 2020-2023
  Total Budget: 800,000 CAD$
  Partners: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)’s headquarters (Nairobi, Kenya), Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina) and University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
  Role: Director of the Microeconomic analysis group, member of the Programme Committee and research mentor 

• Donor: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
  Title: Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa
  Applicant and co-applicants: L. Tiberti (PI), F. Marchetta and D. Sahn
  Period: 2019-2020
  Total Budget: 15,000 US$ 

• Donor: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
  Title: Building Research Capacity in Low-Income Countries through Policy Analysis on Growth and Employment (PAGE II)
  Applicant and co-applicants: B. Shiferaw, M. L. Alzua, J. Cockburn, B. Decaluwé, C. Reyes, L. Tiberti through the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
  Period: 2016-2020
  Total Budget: 3,000,000 CAD$
  Partners: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)’s headquarters (Nairobi, Kenya), Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina), Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (DLSU-AKI) (Manila, Philippines) and Université du Havre (Le Havre, France)
  Role: Director of the Microeconomic analysis group, member of the Programme Committee and research mentor

• Donor: Department for International Development (DfID)
  Title: Building Research Capacity in Low-Income Countries through Policy Analysis on Growth and Employment (PAGE II)
  Applicant and co-applicants: B. Shiferaw, M. L. Alzua, J. Cockburn, B. Decaluwé, C. Reyes, L. Tiberti through the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
  Period: 2016-2020
  Total Budget: 8,000,000 US$
  Partners: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)’s headquarters (Nairobi, Kenya), Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina), Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (DLSU-AKI) (Manila, Philippines) and Université du Havre (Le Havre, France)
  Role: Director of the Microeconomic analysis group, member of the Programme Committee and research mentor

CONSULENZE (formazioni, corsi di insegnamento e ricerca)

• 2020             UNICEF-MENA (research on distributive impact of COVID-19 and mitigation policies in Morocco and Tunisia)
• 2017             Oxford Policy Management (OPM) (training and teaching on child poverty issues in Tanzania – commissioned by UNICEF Tanzania)
• 2015             IPTS-JRC, European Commission, Seville (teaching on macro-micro simulations techniques)
• 2015             Oxford Policy Management (OPM) (training and teaching on child poverty and inequality issues in Ethiopia –                          commissioned by UNICEF Ethiopia)
• 2013 - 2014  UNICEF-MENA (training of local researchers, teaching and research on subsidy removal, child poverty and                              social protection issues in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco)
• 2013            UNICEF-Ghana (training of local researchers and research on fuel subsidy reforms, social protection scaling-up                      and child poverty issues in Ghana)
• 2013            UNICEF-Uganda (training of local researchers and research on fuel revenues, education and child poverty in                           Uganda)
• 2013            Oxford Policy Management (OPM) (research on simulation of different social protection schemes on different                         poverty dimensions in Mozambique)
• 2012            UNICEF-HSRC South Africa (research on economy-wide impacts of the South African Child Support Grant)
• 2011 - 2017 Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and Ministry of Finance, Uganda (training of Ministry’s civil servants on                               microsimulation modelling)
• 2011 - 2012 UNICEF-Burkina Faso (training of local researchers and research on fiscal space and public spending on children                     in Burkina Faso)
• 2011           Oxford Policy Management (OPM) (research on simulation of different social protection schemes for children in                       Ivory Coast and Congo-Brazzaville)

microeconomia applicata;

povertà;

disuguaglianza di genere;

impatto socio-economico degli shock climatici.

Luca Tiberti has a Ph.D. in development economics from the University of Florence (2008). His main research interests are applied microeconomics, poverty and socio-economic impact of climate shocks. He worked between 2008 and 2010 as a researcher at UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. After three years as a researcher at UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, he joined PEP and Laval University in January 2011. During his time at Laval, he has moved from post-doctorate researcher (2011-2013), to research fellow (2013-2015), to assistant professor (2016-2021) and, finally, associate professor (2021). Since November 2020, he is assistant professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Florence. SInce 2015, he is the scientific director of PEP's micro policy analysis team (PMMA), resource person, and member of PEP's program committee. He was the director of the graduate PEP-Laval University microprogram on Applied Development Economics (2018-2021). He has published in journals such as The Economic Journal, Economic Development and Cultural Change, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, World Development, Review of Income and Wealth, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Economics of Transition and Journal of African Economies.

Full CV: link

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH POSITIONS

• since 2020     Assistant Professor (RTDb), Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence
• since 2015     Research Director of the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) Research Group “Microeconomic Analysis”
• since 2011     Resource person, Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) (mentored 30+ research teams from developing)
• 2021             Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Université Laval
• 2016 – 2021  Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Université Laval
• 2018-2021    Director of the graduate microprogramme in Applied Development Economics, joint initiative Partnership for                          Economic Policy (PEP)-Université Laval, including three distance courses (in English and French):
  • ECN-6990 “Computable General Equilibrium modelling”
  • ECN-6991 “Policy Impact Analysis”
  • ECN-6992 “Measuring and Alleviating Poverty and Inequality”
  • ECN-6993 “Gender Analysis in Economic Policy Research” (since 2021)
• 2019 (December) Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Florence

PAST RESEARCH POSITIONS AND TRAINING EXPERIENCES

• 2013-2015 Researcher, Department of Economics, Université Laval
• 2010 Social Policy Officer, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC)
• 2008-2009 Full-time consultant, UNICEF-IRC (Socio-Economic Policy Analysis)
  2007 Visiting researcher, UNICEF South Africa and Human Science Research Council (HSRC)
• 2004, 2006, 2007 Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Florence

TITLES AND EDUCATION

• 2011-2012 Post-doc research fellow, Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économique et l’Emploi (CIRPÉE), Université Laval, Canada (supervisor : Prof. Jean-Yves Duclos)
• 2005-2008 Ph.D. in Development Economics, University of Florence, Italy
• 1998-2003 B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Laurea) – Summa cum laude and honours, University of Florence

GRANTS

• Donor: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
  Title: Evidence to mitigate socio-economic impacts and promote recovery from COVID-19
  Applicant and co-applicants: J. Mariara, M. Alain, M. L. Alzua, M. Chitiga, J. Cockburn, L. Tiberti through the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
  Period: 2020-2023
  Total Budget: 1,200,000 CAD$
  Partners: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)’s headquarters (Nairobi, Kenya), Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina) and University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
  Role: Director of the Microeconomic analysis group, member of the Programme Committee and research mentor

• Donor: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
  Title: Building Research Capacity in Low-Income Countries through Policy Analysis on Growth and Employment (PAGE II) – extension on “Gender-sensitive Analysis on Entrepreneurship and Financial Inclusion, and Rural Employment”
  Applicant and co-applicants: J. Mariara, M. Alain, M. L. Alzua, M. Chitiga, J. Cockburn, C. Reyes, L. Tiberti through the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
  Period: 2019-2021
  Total Budget: 2,200,000 CAD$
  Partners: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)’s headquarters (Nairobi, Kenya), Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina), Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (DLSU-AKI) (Manila, Philippines) and University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
  Role: Director of the Microeconomic analysis group, member of the Programme Committee and research mentor

• Donor: Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
  Title: Climate change in Africa: Impacts and responses for women and girls
  Applicant and co-applicants: J. Mariara, M. Alain, M. L. Alzua, M. Chitiga, J. Cockburn, L. Tiberti through the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
  Period: 2020-2023
  Total Budget: 800,000 CAD$
  Partners: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)’s headquarters (Nairobi, Kenya), Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina) and University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa)
  Role: Director of the Microeconomic analysis group, member of the Programme Committee and research mentor

• Donor: African Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
  Title: Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa
  Applicant and co-applicants: L. Tiberti (PI), F. Marchetta and D. Sahn
  Period: 2019-2020
  Total Budget: 15,000 US$

• Donor: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
  Title: Building Research Capacity in Low-Income Countries through Policy Analysis on Growth and Employment (PAGE II)
  Applicant and co-applicants: B. Shiferaw, M. L. Alzua, J. Cockburn, B. Decaluwé, C. Reyes, L. Tiberti through the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
  Period: 2016-2020
  Total Budget: 3,000,000 CAD$
  Partners: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)’s headquarters (Nairobi, Kenya), Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina), Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (DLSU-AKI) (Manila, Philippines) and Université du Havre (Le Havre, France)
  Role: Director of the Microeconomic analysis group, member of the Programme Committee and research mentor

• Donor: Department for International Development (DfID)
  Title: Building Research Capacity in Low-Income Countries through Policy Analysis on Growth and Employment (PAGE II)
  Applicant and co-applicants: B. Shiferaw, M. L. Alzua, J. Cockburn, B. Decaluwé, C. Reyes, L. Tiberti through the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)
  Period: 2016-2020
  Total Budget: 8,000,000 US$
  Partners: Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP)’s headquarters (Nairobi, Kenya), Université Laval (Québec, Canada), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina), Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (DLSU-AKI) (Manila, Philippines) and Université du Havre (Le Havre, France)
  Role: Director of the Microeconomic analysis group, member of the Programme Committee and research mentor

CONSULTANCIES (training, teaching and research)

• 2020             UNICEF-MENA (research on distributive impact of COVID-19 and mitigation policies in Morocco and Tunisia)
• 2017             Oxford Policy Management (OPM) (training and teaching on child poverty issues in Tanzania – commissioned by UNICEF Tanzania)
• 2015             IPTS-JRC, European Commission, Seville (teaching on macro-micro simulations techniques)
• 2015             Oxford Policy Management (OPM) (training and teaching on child poverty and inequality issues in Ethiopia –                          commissioned by UNICEF Ethiopia)
• 2013 - 2014  UNICEF-MENA (training of local researchers, teaching and research on subsidy removal, child poverty and                              social protection issues in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco)
• 2013            UNICEF-Ghana (training of local researchers and research on fuel subsidy reforms, social protection scaling-up                      and child poverty issues in Ghana)
• 2013            UNICEF-Uganda (training of local researchers and research on fuel revenues, education and child poverty in                           Uganda)
• 2013            Oxford Policy Management (OPM) (research on simulation of different social protection schemes on different                         poverty dimensions in Mozambique)
• 2012            UNICEF-HSRC South Africa (research on economy-wide impacts of the South African Child Support Grant)
• 2011 - 2017 Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and Ministry of Finance, Uganda (training of Ministry’s civil servants on                               microsimulation modelling)
• 2011 - 2012 UNICEF-Burkina Faso (training of local researchers and research on fiscal space and public spending on children                     in Burkina Faso)
• 2011           Oxford Policy Management (OPM) (research on simulation of different social protection schemes for children in                       Ivory Coast and Congo-Brazzaville)

applied microeconomics;

poverty;

gender inequality;

socio-economic impact of climate shocks