With the help of the members of the Scientific Advisory Board, which is already in place, the School recruits faculty from top universities elsewhere in the region and around the world. Faculty members share the founders’ desire to build an institution, which will act as a catalyst for economic growth and development in the region. The faculty will be a mix of permanent and visiting staff, covering all of the core disciplines of business education – accounting, economics, finance, operations, marketing, organisational behaviour, strategy and entrepreneurship.
For the academic year 2016/2017, we will benefit from the expertise of prestigious professionals from the Top Business Schools teaching our courses as Guest Lecturers.
Lucrezia Reichlin è professore di economia presso la London Business School, amministratore indipendente del Gruppo Bancario UniCredit e AGEAS Insurance Group. E’ presidente del consiglio scientifico del think tank Bruegel basato a Bruxelles, membro del consiglio di amministrazione del CEPR (Center for European Policy Research) e del CEMFI (Center for European Monetary and Financial Studies) a Madrid. E 'membro della Commission Economique de la Nation (Advisory Board del ministero dell’economia e della finanza francese). Tra marzo 2005 e settembre 2008 è stata Direttore Generale della Ricerca presso la Banca Centrale Europea. E’ co-fondatore e direttore di Now-Casting Economics ltd. E’ editorialista del quotidiano nazionale italiano Il Corriere della Sera. Lucrezia Reichlin ha conseguito la laurea in economia presso l'Università di Modena e un dottorato di ricerca in economia presso la New York University. Ha pubblicato numerosi articoli di econometria e macroeconomia. E’ stata pioniere nell’utilizzo di metodi di times-series con i Big Data. Il suo lavoro in “now-casting” è stato il primo a proporre metodi econometrici formali per la lettura del flusso di dati in tempo reale al fine di produrre stime tempestive dello stato attuale dell'economia. Questi metodi sono ora ampiamente utilizzati dalle banche centrali e dagli investitori privati di tutto il mondo. I suoi lavori sono pubblicati nelle migliori riviste scientifiche e hanno avuto grande impatto concreto. E’ Fellow della British Academy, della European Economic Association e del Center for European Policy Research e membro del Consiglio della Royal Economic Society.
Francesco Drago is Professor of Economics at the University of Messina where he teaches core courses in microeconomics and microeconometrics, and a research affilate to the Istitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn and the center for studies in economics and finance (CSEF).
Before joining University of Messina, he has held several academic positions, including visiting scholar at Harvard, Santa Fe Institute, Columbia University, University of Munich and University College London. He taught courses in behavioral economics and microeconometrics at Science Po in Paris, University of Nanterre and Univerisad del Rosario in Bogota.
His work on political economy and economics of crime has been published in top journals in economics. Drago received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pisa and a PhD in Economics from the University of Siena.
Professor Persico teaches "Mediterranean Leadership Journey" workshop for Ortygia Business School as visiting professor.
Nicola Persico is currently the John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He taught at University of California Los Angeles, University of Pennysilvania and New York University.
He is the Director of the Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics & Management.Persico has received a number of honors and fellowships, including several National Science Foundation Grants, and he was an Alfred P. Sloan research fellow from 2002-2004. In 2007 he received the Carlo Alberto Medal, awarded to a young Italian economist (resident in Italy or abroad) under the age of 40 for his/her outstanding research contributions to the field of Economics. His work has been published in top journals in economics and law.
Nicola Persico received a bachelor's degree in economics from Bocconi University and a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University in 1996.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Persico's research focuses on contract theory, economics of organizations, political economy/design, labor economics, microeconomics and game theory.
Professor Papaionnou teaches the Economic Growth, Business and Institutions module of "Mediterranean Leadership Journey" workshop for Ortygia Business School as Guest lecturer.
Professor of Economics at London Business School, he is also a research affiliate of the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) and the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research), the leading research institutes in Europe and the United States, respectively. Professor Papaioannou consults regularly with international organisations, major investment banks, hedge funds, and institutional investors on macroeconomic developments in the EU and Greece.
He worked for two years at the Financial Research Division of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany. From 2007 to 2012, he served as Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College (NH, USA). Between 2010 and 2012 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of Harvard University (MA, USA).
Professor Papaionnou completed his PhD in Economics at the London Business School. Prior to his doctoral studies, Professor Papaionnau earned a Master’s in Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University and an LLB Bachelor’s in Law.
He has published in many leading peer-refereed journals, such as theQuarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Econometrica, The Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, The Journal of the European Economic Association and The Journal of International Economics, among others. His work has also appeared in numerous edited book volumes.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Elias Papaioannou’s focuses his research on international finance; political economy; applied econometrics; macro aspects of regulation; law and finance; and growth and development. His research has been recognised with the inaugural 2013 European Investment Bank Young Economist Award; the European Economic Association’s Young Economist Award, 2005; and the Royal Economic Association’s Austin Robinson Memorial Prize, 2008.
Professor Sadun teaches the Corporate Strategy module of "Mediterranean Leadership Journey" workshop for Ortygia Business School as Guest Lecturer.
Raffaella Sadun is the Thomas S. Murphy Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Faculty Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research and Research Associate in the Ariadne Labs Program in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is among the founders of the World Management Survey and the Executive Time Use Study.
Professor Sadun's work has appeared in leading peer reviewed journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Economic Journal, and has been featured in the business press, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. In 2012 Professor Sadun was nominated as a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation.
Professor Sadun completed her PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics. Prior to her doctoral studies, Professor Sadun earned a M.Sc. in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Sadun's research focuses on the economics of productivity, management and organizational change. Her research documents the economic and cultural determinants of managerial choices, as well as their implications for organizational performance in both the private and public sector (including healthcare and education).
