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Dr Giulia Mascagni

Post:Fellow (Institute of Development Studies)
Location:IDS
Email:G.Mascagni@sussex.ac.uk
Personal homepage:Giulia Mascagni at IDS

Biography

My main area of work is taxation in lower-income countries. More broadly, I am interested in public finance, evaluation of public policy, and aid effectiveness. I am an economist by training, holding a PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex. I mostly work on African countries, with a particular focus on Ethiopia and Rwanda. 

I am currently working at IDS as Professorial Fellow and as Executive Director of the International Centre for Tax ad Development (ICTD). At IDS I teach taxation and public finance at the postgraduate level and on professional short courses. I previously collaborated with UNECA, the World Bank, the Overseas Development Institute, and the European Commission. 

I am currently Research Affialiate at the Institute of Fiscal Studies (UK), Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies (Italy), and a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of IMF's TADAT. I have field experience in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Rwanda, amongst others. In Ethiopia I worked as Associate Economic Affaires Officer at the UN Economic Commission for Africa and I was Resident Researcher at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute in Addis Ababa. In Rwanda, I led a set of large-scale field experiments aiming to understand the determinants of tax compliance and I served as Research Advisor to the Rwanda Revenue Authority.

 

Role

Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies

Executive Director, International Centre for Tax and Development 

Qualifications

DPhil in Economics, University of Sussex, October 2008 - ongoing

MA in Development Economics, University of Sussex, October 2007 - September 2008

Msc in Economics and Management for Public Organizations, Università Bocconi, October 2004 - March 2007

Undergraduate Program in Economics and Management for Public Organizations, Università Bocconi, September 2001 - September 2004