ROLE STEG Advisory Group

Francesco Caselli

Professor, London School of Economics at London School of Economics and Political Science

Francesco Caselli

Francesco Caselli holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics, where he is also the Co-Editor of Economica, and a former editor of the Review of Economic Studies. He is Programme Director of CEPR’s Macroeconomics and Growth programme, and has published widely in the areas of agriculture and structural transformation. His work also includes contributions to the understanding of convergence and cross-country income differentials. He is the author of the book Technology Differences over Space and Time. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1997, where he was also the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy from 2002 to 2005.