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Francesco Brindisi
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
fb2102@columbia.edu
Biography:
Francesco Brindisi teaches macroeconomics at the Program for Economic Policy Management. He is the Chief Economist at the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), the City's primary engine for economic development charged with leveraging the City’s assets to drive growth, create jobs and improve the quality of life.
Brindisi conducts and oversees economic research and analyses to identify and examine complex economic issues, formulate sound economic development policies, and enable decision-makers to choose strategies that maximize economic and fiscal returns to the City. He supervises economic impact analyses on City projects as well as in-depth industry research and analyses of the City's fiscal policy, including incentives and other tax expenditure programs.
Under Brindisi's direction, the Economic Research and Analysis Group publishes NYC Economics, a collection of publications and data on the City’s economy. He is a standing advisor for the New York City Labor Market Information Service at the Center for Urban Research, City University of New York.
Prior to joining NYCEDC, Brindisi worked as a researcher at the Center for Economic and International Studies at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Department of Economics. In this position, he published research in the fields of health economics and social security. While pursuing a Ph.D. in economics at Columbia University, Brindisi collaborated with Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and participated in the 2004 Vietnam Country Dialogue organized by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue.
Brindisi is actively involved in economic research in the fields of urban and public economics, economics of information, and applied microeconomics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and a laurea summa cum laude from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata."