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I did both my bachelor’s degree (graduated in 2016) and Master of Science (graduated in 2018) in Economics at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, I have been visiting the University of Singapore in 2015, I have being a research assistant at the New York University in 2016, I visited the University of Chicago in 2018 and then in 2020. In 2018 I started a PhD in Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt (graduated in 2022), with main field Behavioral Economics and Microeconometrics.

In 2024, I started a PostDoc in Economics – Applied Econometrics at Sapienza Università di Roma, with the focus of my research being on estimating the impact of education on professional careers.

I have been working at the European Central Bank from 2018 to 2021 as research analyst, mostly working on applied econometrics research questions.

In March 2021 I joined the economic division of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). First, I have been working under the Hand in Hand project on the technical implementation of economic and econometric analysis, to accelerate agricultural transformation and sustainable rural development in Latin America. My second assignment was about the development of trade analysis and impact evaluation studies to increase the competitiveness of the local sector and identify future investments in Caribbean.  

After two years, I joined the food safety division of FAO, where, under the role of food safety economist, I  estimate the economic cost of food safety, designing ad hoc food safety and food quality interventions and development of food safety monitoring tools using neural network and AI.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diletta-topazio-phd-898114115/

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