Paola Profeta

Paola Profeta is Full Professor of Public Finance, Director of the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality Director and of the Msc Politics and Policy Analysis. Furthermore, she is President of the European Public Choice Society and member of the board of the International Institute of Public Finance. She is member of the editorial board of several international journals, including International Tax and Public Finance, Europen Journal of Political Economy and CESifo Economic Studies. Previously she was associate professor at Bocconi, researcher at the University of Pavia, Post-doc fellow at CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain. Her main research activities include gender equality and public policy, women in politics, policies to promote gender equality and female leadership, public finance, welfare systems (pension, education), comparative taxation, political economics of taxes and welfare state.