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Aguzzoni, Luca

Luca Aguzzoni

Economist with a specialization in competition policy and extensive work experience in public policy, antitrust enforcement, antitrust compliance, ex-post evaluation, and technical assistance. Currently serving as Head of Sector in DG Connect and enforcing the Digital Market Act. He joined the European Commission in 2014 and worked at the Chief Economist Team of DG COMP and at the Recovery and Resilience task force.

Can We Make Digital Platforms’ Algorithms Less Harmful?

How can the EU effectively manage the influence of Big Tech platforms while fostering European digital platforms that better serve societal interests? A policy proposal for a voluntary certification for algorithms and business practices

A Crisis of Confidence in the Dollar Threatens Global Financial Stability

A rise in US Treasury yields would immediately feed through into other countries’ borrowing costs, tightening global financial conditions. A commentary by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

The Moment of Truth for Trump’s Protectionist Policies Is Yet to Come

April’s US inflation data will offer the first glimpse of the real impact of the global trade war that the US administration launched on the “Liberation Day”. A commentary by Ignazio Angeloni

Beyond Breakups: Building Smarter Rules to Tackle Big Tech Power

The real challenge is not the size of successful tech firms per se, but how their scale is leveraged — whether to support vibrant ecosystems or to entrench monopolistic control. A commentary by Francesco Decarolis.

La Nuova Germania di Merz nella Post-Globalizzazione

Even before taking office as the new German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz has already reshaped Germany—and the entire European Union. The return of a Germany ready to take center stage, willing to incur debt like never before to support its economy, is ...

When Will the US Enter Recession?

In his first term, Trump cut taxes before imposing tariffs—this sequencing helped cushion the negative impact of protectionism on US growth. A commentary by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

Lochocki Timo

Timo Lochocki

Timo Lochocki is a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

He studied interdisciplinary social sciences in Germany, the U.S., and Norway, earning recognition for his 2014 doctorate on the rise and fall of right-wing populist parties in Europe. He later served as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Berlin, Washington, and Paris until 2018.

In 2019, he joined the German government as head of strategic planning at the Federal Ministry of Health, playing a key advisory role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Named one of Germany’s “Top 40 under 40” by Capital magazine in 2021, he is also a Young Transatlantic Leader with the American Council on Germany. Since 2022, he has advised German policymakers and international foundations on countering anti-democratic forces and reforming foreign and security policy. He is also a visiting professor at Bard College Berlin. His upcoming book, German Interests: How We Can Become the World’s Most Powerful Democracy and Save the Liberal West, will be published in February 2025.

Romeo, Graziella

Graziella Romeo

Graziella Romeo is an Associate Professor at Bocconi University, where she also serves as the stream lead on Democracy, Solidarity, and Governance in Europe within the Bocconi Lab for European Studies (BLEST). In 2023, she joined the Bocconi Equal Opportunities Committee.

She holds a PhD in Constitutional Law from the Università degli Studi di Milano and a JD in Law from Bocconi.

Rauti, Walter

Walter Rauti

Walter Rauti is a research Fellow at SDA Bocconi School of Management, a researcher at the University of Milan, and a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

His research explores the sustainability of public policies, with a focus on defense management, digital innovation, and the transformation of organizational models in public administration. He also works on issues related to cybercrime, organized crime, and public sector corruption.

He is particularly interested in demographic trends and their economic and policy implications, especially in the context of regional development.