Riccardo Crescenzi London School of Economics

Riccardo Crescenzi is a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has been a European Research Council (ERC) grant holder, leading a major five-year research project on foreign direct investment, global value chains and their territorial impacts across the globe. He is currently the LSE Principal Investigator of a large collaborative research project funded by Horizon Europe and UK Research and Innovation on inequalities in the era of global megatrends. Riccardo has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, a Visiting Scholar at the Taubman Centre at Harvard University, and at the University of California— Los Angeles, as well as an Associate at the Centre for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Riccardo is currently a Member of the HighLevel Reflection Group on the ‘Future of Cohesion Policy’ established by the European Commission to offer advice and knowledge on maximising the impact of Cohesion Policy.