Professor Paola Conconi

BP Professor of Economics, Department of Economics; Professional Fellow, New College

About

Paola Conconi is a Professor of Economics (Statutory Chair) at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at New College, Oxford. Before joining Oxford, she was a Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a member of the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES).

Professor Conconi is a Research Fellow of the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) International Trade and Regional Economics Program, a CESifo Research Fellow, a Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics, and the Director of the CEPR Research Network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development. She has published many papers in leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy and the Review of Economic Studies.

She has received several prestigious grants, including an Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to study the interplay between trade agreements and supply chains. Her main research interests are in international trade, political economy and firm organisation.

She obtained a BA in Political Science from the University of Bologna, a MA in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University and a MSc and PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick.