Simona Iammarino is Professor of Applied Economics at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L’Aquila, Italy; Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography & Environment of the London School of Economics (LSE), and member of the Board of the LSE-Cañada Blanch Centre; and affiliate member of the CRENoS, University of Cagliari. She was Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE (2009-2022), where she acted as Head of Department (2014-2017) and academic member of the LSE Council (2016-2020).
Simona’s main research interests lie in the following areas: Multinational corporations, globalisation and local economic development; Economic geography of innovation and technological change; Regional and local economic development and policy. She has published more than 70 articles in major peer-reviewed journals, two co-authored books, around 30 book chapters, and numerous working papers, policy reports and other publications.
She is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Geography; she was a member of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) Executive Group and Board, and Chair of the RSA Journal Committee (2017-2025); she was elected Vice-president of the Italian Society of Economics (SIE) in 2025. She has a long-term experience in externally funded international research projects, and in consultancy projects for various international organisations (e.g. EU Commission, OECD, United Nations, ADB, etc.) and numerous government agencies.
In 2024 Simona was awarded the “ERSA European Prize in Regional Science”, arguably the highest prize in regional sciences, and the “Giacomo Becattini” Prize, Italian Society of Economics and Industrial Policy (SIEPI).
Academic Profile by:
Dimitrios Tsiotas, Assistant Professor, RSI J
References
https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/simona-iammarino
https://web.unica.it/unica/page/en/simona_iammarino
https://cepr.org/about/people/simona-iammarino
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=enmTEFEAAAAJ&hl=en