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A Second Term for Ursula Von der Leyen? The Rocky Road Ahead

After decades of being perceived as too technocratic and distant, the fight for the European Union’s top jobs has become highly anticipated and much more political

Why France Risks Becoming a Major Risk Factor for the EU

The elections for the European Parliament of June 6-9 had a clear winner, the extreme right, and also a clear loser, the economy.

China's experience of promoting venture capital investment

China’s effort to promote venture capital investment through government-sponsored so-called guidance funds echoes practices in other parts of the world, with mixed results. This session considers the Chinese experience in an international comparative...

Catch-22: Europe and the Youth

"I live in Milan, I vote for Europe." This is the name of the initiative through which the Municipality of Milan, the European Parliament, and the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University worked together to chat with Milanese residen...

Il Comma 22 dei giovani e l’Europa

C’è una sorta di meccanismo “Comma 22” che alle elezioni europee si declina così: i giovani sentono la politica come distante dai loro problemi e per questo votano meno, ma proprio perché votano meno la politica dà loro meno peso. Come si risolve?

How to Deal with Policy Implications of an Aging Population

Aging is quite possibly bringing havoc to social security systems across the rich World. It is happening slowly, but it is destiny

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Kevin Cunningham

Kevin Cunningham is a lecturer in politics, political strategist, and pollster. He has worked for a number of political parties, most notably leading the targeting and analytics for UK Labour. Kevin also specialises in the politicisation of immigration and worked for three years as a researcher on an EU-funded project to understand the politicisation of immigration. He runs Ireland Thinks, working principally for state bodies, academics, and political parties.

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Thomas Rowley

Thomas Rowley is a researcher at the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University. He obtained his PhD in Economics at ESSEC Business School and CY Cergy Paris Université. His research focuses on international trade, productivity, competition, and the intersection of trade, industrial, and environmental policies.

Trade and technology relations between China and the EU, a Hybrid meeting IEP@BU - Fudan University

IEP organized on May, 25, a hybrid meeting involving European and Chinese scholars to discuss key issues in the trade and technology relations between China and the EU.

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Andrea Sironi

Andrea Sironi is a Professor of Banking and Finance and, since November 2022, the President of Bocconi University. He was Rector from 2012 to 2016. Since May 2021 he is also President of the Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (AIRC), while in May 2022 he became Chairman of Assicurazioni Generali. Until April 2022 he has been Chair of Borsa Italiana, the Italian stock exchange.

Sironi has held visiting positions at the Research and Statistics Division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC, at the Salomon Brothers Center, Stern School of Business (NYU), and at Sciences Po, Paris. In the past, he has been a member of the BoD of the London Stock Exchange Group, of the Intesa SanPaolo Group and of the Unicredit Group. At the beginning of his career, Andrea Sironi was a financial analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank in London.