Global INTAN-Invest

Cecilia Jona-Lasinio is Full Professor of Applied Economics at Luiss Business School in Rome, Senior economic advisor for the Economics Department at the OECD and fellow at the NBER Program in Economic Measurement 2023.

She authored many publications on Intangibles, ICT and Productivity Growth. Her main research interests are Digital economy, Economic Growth and Innovation, Intangible capital, ICT, Global Value Chains and International Competitiveness. She has been involved in several European Commission-funded research projects and consultancies for government agencies and international organizations. Awarded with the Indigo Prize – LetterOne Foundation (UK) – First winners joint with J. Haskel, C. Corrado, K. Fox, P. Goodridge, D. Sichel and S. Westlake, for the essay titled “Improving GDP: Demolishing, Repointing or Extending?” October 2017.

Carol Corrado conducts research on intangible capital, digital innovation, and economic growth. An essay on re-imagining GDP that she co-authored won the Indigo Prize in 2017, and she received the ASA’s prestigious Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics in 2003 and a special achievement award from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1998. In addition to her position as Senior Policy Scholar at the Center for Business and Public Policy at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, Carol conducts work for the World Intellectual Property Organization of the United Nation as Senior Researcher at Luiss University (Rome). She served as Distinguished Principal Research Fellow in Economics at The Conference Board, a business research and membership organization headquartered in New York City, after serving nearly 30 years on the staff of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC. Corrado holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in management science from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Jonathan Haskel CBE is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School and an External Member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. His research is on productivity and intangible investment and is the co-author of two books: ‘Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy’ and ‘Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy’.  He has been a non-executive director of the UK Statistics Authority and panel member of the Competition and Markets Authority.

Massimiliano Iommi is a senior researcher at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) and a research fellow at the Luiss Lab of European Economics. At Istat, he has been project manager responsible for annual estimates of capital formation, consumption of fixed capital, balance sheets for non-financial assets and productivity statistics. He served as Senior Economist at the IMF Statistics Department’s Real Sector Division and has been a consultant to the EU Commission, the European Investment Bank, and the OECD. He has extended experience in delivering and coordinating statistical capacity development on national accounts, both in training courses and in technical assistance. His main research interest is the measurement of intangible capital in the national accounts framework, and he participated in several EU-funded projects, research collaborations, and Eurostat and OECD task forces on this topic. Iommi has an MSc in Economics from the Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Filippo Bontadini is Assistant Professor in Applied Economics at the department of Business and Management at Luiss University. He is also Research Fellow at the Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy. He has worked as a researcher on the EUKLEMS-INTAN Prod project and has joined the Luiss Business School team working on the Global INTAN-Invest database.

Filippo is an Economic Advisor on the Joint Task Force of the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance and the OECD for Multilateral Policy Support.

Previously, he has been a Research Fellow at the OFCE-Sciences Po and has obtained his PhD at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, where he is now an Associate Fellow.

Florencia Jaccoud is a postdoctoral fellow in a research project on intangible assets and asymmetries in European value chains based at Camerino University and Luiss University. She is also a PhD candidate at UNU-MERIT. Her research focuses on the economics of innovation, labor markets, and economic development. In addition to her academic activities, she has served as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and has worked as a policy advisor in the Argentinian Congress.

Patrick Serberis recently completed a MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics.

He is currently working as a research assistant at King’s College London.

His research focuses on the changing composition of skills in job postings and their impact on the demand for university degrees.

Sacha is Co-Editor of the Global Innovation Index and Head of Section in the Department for Economics and Data Analytics, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector at WIPO, where he leads a team of economists and data scientists to produce evidence-based insights and policy recommendations on innovation and intellectual property (IP) issues. With over 20 years of experience, Sacha is passionate about fostering innovative minds and institutions around the world. Mr. Wunsch-Vincent is also a lecturer at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of St. Gallen and has been the Swiss National Science Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (University of Berkeley) and consulted for the World Bank.

Anmol is a Research Fellow in the Department for Economics and Data Analytics at WIPO. She holds a PhD degree in International Economics from the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her research focuses on international trade, innovation and technology adoption. At WIPO, Anmol is responsible for managing and disseminating research on topics related to intangible investment. She has previously worked with several international organizations including the OECD, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Trade Centre (ITC) and CompNet.