Carlo Altomonte
Carlo Altomonte is Associate Professor of Economics of European Integration at Bocconi University in Milian. At SDA Bocconi School of Management, he teaches International Business Environment within the Executive MBA programmes.
A graduated cum laude in International Economics at Bocconi University, he has a Ph.D in Applied Economics within the Department of Industrial Economics at Leuven University (KUL)-Belgium. He also holds a MA in Economics from UCL-Belgium (1996) and a Doctoral Degree in International Economic Law obtained at Bocconi University (1999).
Before being enrolled in Bocconi, he served for three years (1996-1999) as a research assistant to the Vice President of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels. In 1995, he served for one year as a consultant to the Division of Transnational Corporations of UNCTAD, UN Headquarters in Geneva.
He has been Visiting Professor of International Business at Leuven University in 2004 and 2005, and has held short visiting programmes on Economics of European Integration at NYU (New York, USA - 2006 and 2007), Keio University (Tokyo - 2008 and 2009), Korea Business School (Seoul, 2009), the Institute of European Studies (Macau - 2005, 2007 and 2008), the National Academy of Sciences (Hanoi, Vietnam - 20040, IHEC (Carthage, Tunisia - 2003) and the Universidad de l'Habana (L'Habana, Cuba - 2002).
Among his professional activities, he is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Studies (ISPI) in Milan; Research Fellow at FEEM-Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei in Milan; and Visiting Fellow at Bruegel in Brussels. He is a consultant for the European Commission, where he has participated in more than ten EU-related projects dealing with regional and industrial policies. In the private sector, he has been a consultant for, among others, the Freudenberg Group, ItalCementi, Sanofi, Whirpool, and BMW.
His main areas of research and publication are European economic policy, industrial economics and economic geography, theory of multinational corporations and foreign direct investment.