Pietro Garibaldi is currently a Professor of Economics at the University of Turin, and acts as Economic Counselor to the Italian Ministry of Finance. He is also head of Labor Studies for the Fondazione Debenedetti, and research fellow at Igier Milan, CEPR and IZA. He holds a Phd in Economics from the London School of Economics. He was previously an economist in the IMF Research Department and an Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University.