Profiles

Prior to joining ELEVATE, Filippo worked as associate at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) on the HERfinance Digital Wages program, promoting the digitization of payments in the readymade garment industry in South Asia. Before BSR, Filippo worked as country economist at the International Growth Centre (IGC), managing the Bangladesh research program and providing the local government with evidence-based economic advisory services. Before IGC, Filippo was a research associate at Innovations for Poverty Action, where he evaluated the impact of vocational training on female line operators’ career performances in the readymade garment sector in Dhaka.

Filippo holds a M.Sc. in International Trade, Finance, and Development from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, as well as an M.Sc. and B.A. in Development Studies from the Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna (University of Bologna). Filippo also studied at University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Copenhagen.