Dr. Cinzia Alcidi is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, where she is also head of the Economic Policy Unit and the Jobs and Skills Unit. From 2020 to 2023 she was Director of Research.
A macroeconomist by training, over the last 15 years, Cinzia provided evidence-based policy analysis to EU institutions and national governments by completing research projects in the field of economic policy analysis and policy evaluation, related to labour markets, macroeconomics and financial services. Her main research interests are EU economic policy, public finances and economic governance as well as macroeconomics and labour economics.
She is currently guest lecturer at the University of Ghent (BE) and Member of the Joint Board of Studies of the “Economics of Globalisation and European Integration (EGEI)” Erasmus Mundus Master Degree. She is member of the editorial Board of Intereconomics, and Editor of Applied Economics Quarterly.
Dr. Alcidi holds a Ph.D. degree in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (Switzerland). She also holds a Doctorate in Statistical and Mathematical Methods applied to Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Perugia (Italy).