Biography
Franco Mosconi is the Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Parma in the Department of Economics & Management, where he is still lecturing on Industrial Economics and Policy (2002-to date). He also lectures at the European College of Parma. Previously, he was Adjunct Professor of Industrial Economics (Faculty of Economics, Forlì Campus) at the University of Bologna, and at the same University he was Research Assistant at the Centro di Economia e Politica Industriale (1989-1996).
From 1996 through to 1998, he served as an Economic Advisor to Italy’s President of the Council of Ministers, while from 1999 to 2001 he was initially a Member of the President's Cabinet and then a Member of the President’s Forward Studies Unit (‘Cellule de Perspective’) at the European Commission in Brussels.
His research interests include the European industrial policy, the role of manufacturing in the EU’s economy, the evolution of Italian SMEs and industrial districts.
He has published extensively - monographs, book chapters, journal articles, reports - on all these topics with publishers such as Edward Elgar, Il Mulino, Routledge, Springer.
His main research projects have been funded by the European Commission (Jean Monnet Chair), the European Investment Bank (Starebei), Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca (Prin), and Fondazione Cariparma (‘The Emilian Model’).
After graduating in Economics and Business from the University of Bologna, he went on to specialise as a Research Student in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
As a Visiting Fellow at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, Franco Mosconi will be adding to his previous works on Industrial Policy – particularly his 2015 monograph, The New European Industrial Policy – and will continue to explore the theory and practice of this area of public policy.