Stefania Lovo

Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, School of Politics, Economics & International Relations, University of Reading

Stefania is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Reading. Her research interests are in development economics, environmental economics, political economy, and policy impact evaluation. In particular, she has studied how deforestation interacts with ethnic diversity and institutional quality, how tenure insecurity, climate shocks and crop choices affect individual and household welfare and how environmental policies impact on firm location, international trade and firm performance. She is the co-founder of DEV-Connect [https://dev-connect.org/], a platform that promotes collaborations in development economics across continents, and the chair of the European Development Economics Group (EDEG)