Francesco Andreoli (PhD) is researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), where he joined in 2013. Francesco's research focuses on distributional issues (inequality between generations and across space), on the role of public policy in alleviating inequality (with a focus on child care, educational and predistribution policies), and on methodological advancements on measurement and inference.

Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, she got a PhD from the University of California, Davis. Previously Associate Professor of Economics & International Politics at Middlebury College (UK), she also worked as a financial analyst for a few years in her home country. Now she is also a member of the NSF-funded Global Price and Income History Group.

Luis Bértola is Full Professor of Economic and Social History at the Department of Social Sciences of the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay). His main research topics are comparative long-run development, inequality, and living standards, with a focus on Latin America. Prof. Bértola is also the coordinator of MOxLAD (Montevideo-Oxford Latin America Economic History Database).

He holds a Master in Economics (Paris School of Economics, 2011) and in Sociology (EHESS, Paris, 2011). He is completing a joint-PhD in Economics and Sociology at the Paris School of Economics (Thesis : Household budgets in times of unemployment. The case of the 2008 Spanish Great Recession").

Francesco Bloise obtained a PhD in Economics and Finance at Sapienza University of Rome in September 2017. In his PhD thesis he has worked on the intergenerational transmission of wealth and earnings in Italy. Currently, he is involved in studies and research projects on the intergenerational transmission of income and wealth in advanced and developing countries, on the welfare state and public expenditure.

He is Professor of History at the University of Antwerp, and founder of the Centre for Urban History. He holds a PhD in History from KU Leuven. His research interests include the history of economic growth and social inequality, transportation and urbanisation, material culture and consumption of the early modern Low Countries (15th-19th centuries). He also studies retail developments and pre-industrial consumption inequalities. In 2018 he co-authored and co-edited the book "City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100-1800” (CUP).

Nikolay is Research Fellow at the Monetary Research Center (UNWE, Sofia). He holds a Master in International Relations from Roma Tre University (2015) and one in Sociology from Sapienza University (2017), where he is completing a European PhD in Socio-economic and Statistical Studies. His research focuses on the interaction between Economics and Sociology in a historical perspective.

She holds a PhD in Economics (University of Groningen). Her research focuses on long-term comparative economic development patterns, with a special focus on Africa. Her current research projects focus on long-term population dynamics, on the historical origins of present-day income inequality, and on long-term agricultural productivity. She is also affiliated with the Maddison Project.

Dr. Borderías is Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Barcelona, where she directs the Research Excellence Group “History of Labour: Work, Institutions and Gender”. Specialist in the social history of women, she has written and directed research on the Catalan labor market, and on female and child labor in the 19th and 20th century.

Marianna holds a PhD in “Computational Methods for Financial and Economic Forecasting and Decisions” (University of Bergamo), and now teaches Economic Statistics in Tor Vergata (Rome). Her research mainly focuses on household finance, ageing and financial markets, financial markets and business cycle, macroeconomic forecasts, and financial markets efficiency.

Paolo Brunori is Assistant professor of Economics at the University of Florence, and is also affiliated to the Department of Economics and Finance, University of Bari. His research focuses on methodological aspects of the measurement of social inequalities. His scholarly articles have appeared in a number of international, peer-reviewed journals. He is fellow of the Life Course Center, University of Queensland, where he was visiting researcher in 2017.

She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (1998) and her main research interests focus on the dynamics of income distribution, poverty, income inequality, gender discrimination in the labor market and the assessment of the distributional impact of public policies.

Andrea Colli is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University, Milan. His research interests range from the history of family firms, to small and medium-sized enterprises, to the role played by international entrepreneurs and firms in the global economy, to corporate governance in historical perspective. He has also devoted research activity to the study of the history of entrepreneurship in different contexts.

He holds a Masters in International Development from University of California - Davis, and a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from University of California – Berkeley

He focuses on policy analysis and research in  development issues and has worked in Africa and Europe and Central Regions

He holds a PhD in Economic History from the University of Pisa (2007). In addition to many publications in international economic journals, he has published several books about Italian economic history. His most recent work is "Rise and decline. An economic history of Italy" (Il Mulino, 2015). He has also worked as consultant for the Bank of Italy and has served for five years (2010-2015) visiting professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

He holds a PhD in Economic History (Utrecht University). His research is aimed at investigating the long-run, structural changes in societies and the factors that cause growth, with a focus on South Africa. He is a coordinator of the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP) and founding member of the African Economic History Network.

Ewout Frankema is Professor of Rural and Environmental History at Wageningen University, member of the Young Royal Dutch Academy  of Arts and Sciences and research fellow of CEPR. His research agenda focuses on a deeper understanding of the long-term comparative economic development of developing regions (Africa, Latin America, Asia) and the historical origins and nature of present-day global inequality.

She holds a BA in Economics (2015, University of Rome Tor Vergata) and a MSc in Economics (2016, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics). She is currently research assistant at HHB.

After a BA and an MSc in Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and an MPhil in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford, he is currently a DPhil student in the same university. Previously, he has worked as a researcher at the HHB Project.

Her areas of expertise are microeconometrics and tax-benefit microsimulation. Before joining Prometeia, she worked as Assistant Statistician for the Scottish Government. She holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Bologna, an MSc in Economics from the University of Glasgow and a BSc in Political Sciences from the University of Milan.

Lecturer at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE, Islamabad), Adeeba holds an MPhil in Economics from Quaid-i-AzamUniversity (Islamabad, Pakistan) and a MSc in Economics from PMAS Arid Agriculture University, (Rawalpindi, Pakistan).

He holds a PhD in Economic History (LSE) and has published widely on African economic development, mainly on patterns of economic growth and on economic development statistics. His books are based on research in Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Botswana. He is currently working on linking studies on post-colonial economic development with the economic history of colonial Africa.

Francesca holds a PhD from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, and she is currently a visiting Research Scholar at the “Philosophy, Politics, and Economics” program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the economics of networks and information, uncertainty and incentives.

Marcella Lorenzini earned a PhD in Business History at the University of Milan and one in Economic History from the University of Verona. She currently teaches World Economic History in Milan, while her research mainly analyzes how credit markets developed in absence of formal institutions, with a special focus on notaries.

After studying History and Economics, she obtained her MSc in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University. She has participated in research projects at the OECD and World Bank and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a consultant to the World Bank.

He holds a PhD in Development Economics from the University of Florence. He focuses on policy analysis and research in  development issues and has worked in Sub Saharan Africa and Maghreb region. His recent research agenda focuses on understanding the long-term  determinants of inequality and polarization in Sub Saharan Africa.

PhD in Economic History at the Universitat Àutonoma de Barcelona (2003), Luisa is now Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her research focuses on labour history and business history from a gender perspective. She is the principal investigator of the Project "Wages, Activity and Living Standards in Galicia, 1850-1950", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Industry.

Guido Neidhöfer is Research Associate ad DIW Berlin - the German Institute for Economic Research. He holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin, School of Business and Economics. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of economic inequality and social mobility.

Stefan is a researcher and teacher at the Unit for Economic History of the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on historical demography, with a focus on the long-term trends in height and health, and and on the social history related to the interplay between working life and the household. He also teaches courses in introductory statistics and on the long-term history of the production, distribution and consumption of food.

He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", with a thesis on the evolution of living conditions in Spain. He is currently reading for a MSc in Economic and Social Sciences at Bocconi University. Previously, he has worked as a researcher at the HHB Project.

She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Strasbourg (France) and from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy) in 2013. Her research interests focus on the mechanisms underlying the long-run processes of economic and demographic development – with a particular emphasis on women empowerment and gender equality.

Valeria holds a PhD in Modern History from Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and she is currently Associate Professor of Economic History at University of Pisa. Her research focuses on history of consumption and material culture, economy of art and business history of fashion.

She obtained her Master’s degree in Economic History and she has a B.A. in Economics from the University of the Republic (Uruguay). Her research covers the fields of economic history and development economics, and her work currently focuses on consumption, living standards and historical national accounts in Latin America.

He holds an MA from Columbia University and an MSc from LSE, obtained after receiving a BA in Contemporary History from the University of Siena, Italy. From July 2013 to March 2014 he has worked as a Consultant for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the office of Deputy Minister Marta Dassu'.

Currently working as lecturer in Economics at the School of Social Sciences & Humanities (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan, she holds an MPhil in Economics (2015) from the Quaid-i-Azam University (Islamabad). Her previous research focused on macroeconomics and development, but she is now increasingly engaging with welfare economics, poverty and income inequality.

Elise holds a PhD in Economic and Social History (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/IISH) and is specialized in the history of labour relations, notably women’s and children’s work. She has directed several comparative labour history projects, on the history of textile workers, child labour, domestic workers, and sex workers. In 2017 she was awarded an ERC grant to study the role of household labour and consumption in the relocation of textile production across the world since ca. 1750.

Mattia holds an MA in Historical Sciences from the University of Padua. He has completed a joint PhD in Economics and Management (University of Verona) and in History (University of Antwerp) in 2018, with a research project on “Consumer behaviour and material living standards in a transition economy: Venice (ca. 1650-1800)”.

Jacob is Professor of Economics at the University of Southern Denmark, research fellow at the CEPR (London), and research associate of the CAGE in Warwick. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and one in Economic History from Lund University. His research concerns the forces that lead to the wealth of nations, focusing on England, Italy, and sub-Saharan Africa.

He holds a BA in Economics from the Universidade de Sao Paulo and a MA in Development Economics from the Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, where he is also associate of the Research Group 1723 "Globalization and Development".

Giulia Zacchia is research fellow in economics at the Department of Statistics of Sapienza University of Rome, where she collaborates with Minerva - Laboratory on Gender Diversity and Gender Inequality. She holds a PhD in History of Economic Thought from the University of Macerata (Italy). Her research interests extend to social and financial inclusion in a gender perspective, but also cover gender gaps in academia, in particular in economics.