Eliana La Ferrara

Professor of Economics and Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics. Works in the broad area of development and political economics, with a focus on the role of social factors in economic development. She has made fundamental contributions to the analysis of ethnicity, trust and conflict, kin structure and social norms, and the impact of television on social outcomes. She directs the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies (LEAP) at Bocconi. She has been President of the European Economic Association and of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).