Ivan Etzo is an Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Economics and Business of the University of Cagliari. He is also a researcher of the Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS). He received his PhD in Economics in 2008 from the University of Cagliari and the Master of Science in Financial and Business Economics with merit in 2005 from the University of Essex (UK).

His main research interests are: Regional Economics, Immigration Economics, and Tourism Economics.

He has been visiting researcher of the following universities:

• August 2019 – September 2019: Seikei University, Faculty of Economics, Tokyo (Giappone);
• March 2019 – June 2019: University of California Davis (USA), Department of Economics, Davis – California (USA);
• April 2016 – June 2016: Kazan Federal University, Department of Economics, Kazan (Russia).