Rector of the University of Milano-Bicocca since 1 October 2019, Giovanna Iannantuoni is Professor of Political Economy. After graduating in Economics and Social Sciences (DES) from Bocconi University, she obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (2001).
She spent several years abroad in the most prestigious economics departments, such as Rochester University, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University of Cambridge. She was a Fellow at Trinity Hall College (University of Cambridge) and worked in the equity markets department of Credit Suisse First Boston (London).
At the University of Milano-Bicocca, she was first coordinator of the doctoral programme in economics and then, in 2015, she was appointed president of the doctoral school. Her research interests focus on game theory, political economy decisions and microeconomics. In particular, she studies the properties of solution concepts of game theory models and their application to different electoral systems.
In her professional career, she has won several international and national projects as scientific officer (Ramon y Cajal Fellowship, Trinity Hall Fellowship, PRIN, Cariplo) and has published in the most important international economics journals, such as American Economic Review, Social Choice and Welfare and Mathematical Social Sciences.