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Alessandra Faggian
Alessandra Faggian
Gran Sasso Science Institute
Alessandra Faggian is Professor of Applied Economics, Director of Social Sciences and Vice Provost for Research and International Relationships at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy. She is co-editor of Journal of Regional Science and previous editor of the journal Papers in Regional Science. She is Vice President of the Italian Economics Society (SIE) and she has been President of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC). She is in the borad of directors of the Italian Regional Science Association (AISRe) and of the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA) in the USA.
She has co-authored over 80 academic publications in journals such as Oxford Economics Papers, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Feminist Economics, Regional Studies, Papers in Regional Science, Journal of Regional Science and the Journal of Economic Geography. Alessandra is the 2007 recipient of the Moss Madden Memorial Medal by the Regional Science Association International: Irish and British section and the 2015 recipient of the Geoffrey Hewings Award by NARSC for outstanding research contribution by a young scholar in the field of regional science.
In 2016, in a ranking of the top 100 regional scientists in the world, she ranked 19th.