Federico Podestà

Federico Podestà is a research fellow at the Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (IRVAPP). He completed his Ph.D. in Economic Sociology at the University of Brescia. He has been visiting student at the McDonough School of Business (Georgetown University), the European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (University of Essex), and at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies of Cologne. Before coming to IRVAPP, Federico worked as a researcher at the Social and Economic Permanent Observatory (OPES).

He published several works in the field of comparative political economy, ranging from welfare state evolution to partisanship, from living conditions to quantitative methods.