Ugo Panizza is currently Professor of International Economics and Pictet Chair in Finance and Development at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Centre for Finance and Development.
He is Director of the International Centre for Monetary and Banking Studies (ICMB), Vice President and Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Fellow of the Fondazione Einaudi, and Editor-in-Chief of International Development Policy. His work focuses on international finance, sovereign debt, banking, and political economy, with a particular interest in the challenges faced by developing countries.
Before joining the Institute, he served as Chief of the Debt and Finance Analysis Unit at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), contributing to research and policy work on debt sustainability and development finance.
He previously worked at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank and held teaching and research positions at the American University of Beirut and the University of Turin.
He holds a PhD in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University.