Eliana La Ferrara is a Research Fellow at CERP. She is the Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan where she also directs the Laboratory for Effective Anti-poverty Policies (LEAP). She was president of the European Economic Association in 2018. She is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of J-PAL Affiliate. Dr Eliana is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER) at Bocconi. She is a Fellow of the European Development Research Network (EUDN), an Affiliate of the Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and the Coordinator of the European network on Actors, Markets and Institutions in Developing Countires (AMID). Dr Eliana is a member of the Council of the European Economic Association, and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of the European Economic Association, the World Bank Economic Review and the Journal of African Economies. She has worked as consultant for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Her research is in the field of development economics, with a particular focus on the role of ethnicity, social norms and institutions. She is currently working on the economics of conflict in developing countries. Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and the Journal of the European Economic Association. She is the recipient of various research grants from the European Research Council (ERC) and the European Commission. She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1999.