Giancarlo Corsetti is the Pierre Werner Chair and Professor of Economics at European University Institute. He previously taught at Cambridge University, where he was director of the Cambridge-INET institute. Before this, he taught at the Universities of Rome III, Yale and Bologna. He is a leading scholar in international economics and open macro with contributions on currency, financial and sovereign crises, and monetary and fiscal policy. He is a consultant at the European Central Bank and the Bank of England, and a regular visiting professor in central banks and international institutions. He is a fellow of the British Academy.