Women Directors (PDF)

Paola Profeta is Associate Professor of Public Economics at Università Bocconi, Italy, where she also coordinates the area of 'Gender' in the Dondena Research Center. She is a member of the monitoring team for Law 120/2011 at the Department of Equal Opportunities (Italian Presidency of Council of Ministries), coordinator of the Bocconi unit for the 'Call of Action' launched by Viviane Reding, scientific advisor of Unicredit and Universities Foundation, and associate editor of CESifo Economic Studies. Her research interests are in public economics, political economics and gender. She has extensively published in leading international journals such as Economic Journal, Economic Policy, European Economic Review and she has written international books. She has coordinated several international projects and organized workshops on the topic of gender equality. She serves as independent director on the board of a listed Italian bank and of a research centre.

Livia Amidani Aliberti is Founder of Aliberti Governance Advisors. She supports her clients as Corporate Governance consultant, and serves on listed and charity boards in Italy and the UK. Engaged in gender diversity research since 2004, Livia holds a postgraduate Level 7 Certificate of the FT, is a certified Accountant and holds a BA in Economics and Business.

Alessandra Casarico is Associate Professor of Public Economics at Università Bocconi, Italy, and Director of Econpubblica, Center of Research on the Economics of the Public Sector at Università Bocconi. She is a Research Fellow of CESifo, Munich, Germany. Her main research interests fall in the area of public economics. She has published in international refereed journals such as the Journal of Public Economics, The Economic Journal, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics and she has contributed to books published by national and international editors.

Marilisa D'Amico is Full Professor of Constitutional Law and Constitutional Justice at the University