HYPE Seminar Series - Europe at a Crossroads: The EMU Between the Crises and the Debate on Reform

Presenter: Professor Francesco Saraceno

Francesco Saraceno is Deputy Department Director at OFCE-Sciences Po. He holds Ph.Ds in Economics from Columbia University and La Sapienza University of Rome. His main research interests include the relationship between inequality and macroeconomic performance, European macroeconomic policies, and the interaction between structural reforms, fiscal and monetary policies. He published in several international journals such as Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Financial Stability.

In 2000 he became member of the Council of Economic Advisors for the Italian Prime Minister's Office. In 2002 he moved to Paris to work the Research Center in Economics of Sciences-Po Paris, where he also teaches international and European macroeconomics within the Master of European Affairs at Sciences-Po. He is also Academic Director of the Sciences Po-Northwestern European Affairs Program. He is member of the Scientific Board for the LUISS School of European Political Economy (SEP), where he also teaches European macroeconomics. He regularly does consulting and executive trainings, and he is involved in the institutional dialogue on macroeconomic policy and employment in the EU and for the International Labour Organization (ILO). He maintains a blog on European matters, and regularly intervenes in the public debate on the EU economy. You can follow him on Twitter @fsaraceno.