Simona Iammarino is Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Economics and Business of the University of Cagliari, Italy; Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography & Environment of the London School of Economics (LSE); member of the Board of the LSE-Cañada Blanch Centre; affiliate faculty member at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) L’Aquila, Italy. She was Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE (2009-2022), where she acted as Head of Department (2014-2017) and academic member of the LSE Council (2016-2020).

Simona’s main research interests lie in the following areas: Multinational corporations, globalisation and local economic development; Economic geography of innovation and technological change; Regional systems of innovation; Regional and local economic development and policy. She has published more than 70 articles in major peer-reviewed journals, two co-authored books, around 30 book chapters, and numerous working papers, policy reports and other publications.

She is co-editor of the Journal of Economic Geography, and a member of the RSA Board and Chair of the RSA Journal Committee. Simona has a long-term experience in externally funded international research projects, and in consultancy projects for various international organisations (e.g. EU Commission, OECD, United Nations) and numerous government agencies.

Member of POLISS: https://poliss.eu

Member of ESSPIN: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101061104

Recent publications:

New in Research Policy with Y. Li & A. Ascani

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104914

New in Journal of International Management with A. Ascani & L. Balachandran Nair:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2022.100993

New in Regional Studies with A. Diemer, R. Perkins & A. Gros:  

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2022.2077326

New in Economic Geography with A. Diemer, A. Rodriguez-Pose & M. Storper:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00130095.2022.2080655

New in Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization with D. Denti:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.11.024