Riccardo Crescenzi

Professor of economic geography at London School of Economics

Riccardo Crescenzi is a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. He has been a European Research Council grant holder, leading a major research project on foreign direct investment (FDI), global value chains (GVCs) and their impacts across the globe. He is currently the LSE Principal Investigator of a large collaborative research project funded by Horizon Europe and UKRI on inequalities and global megatrends.

Riccardo has been a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, a Visiting Scholar at the Taubman Centre at Harvard University, and at UCLA, as well as an Associate at the Centre for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

He has a long track-record of teaching and research in regional development, innovation, FDI and GVCs. This research is published in top peer-reviewed journals in economic geography, international economics and international business and management and widely cited in academic and policy circles.