Biography
Leonardo Melosi is Professor of Economics at the European University Institute (EUI) and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Before joining the EUI, he was Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He previously served as Senior Economist, Economic Advisor, and Executive Director of the Center for Applied Macroeconomic Research in the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Earlier in his career, he was Assistant Professor at the London Business School.
Melosi serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Journal of Applied Econometrics and is a member of the Board of Editors of Lavoce.info. He has also held visiting positions at Northwestern University and Columbia University. In 2025, he was appointed Research Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), following previous fellowships at the European Central Bank (as a Wim Duisenberg Fellow) and the Bank of England (as a Houblon-Norman Fellow).
He has published articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the NBER Macroeconomics Annual.
He holds a B.A. in Economics from LUISS University in Rome, an M.Sc. in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.