Description
Riccardo Crescenzi is a Professor of Economic Geography and Deputy Head of Department (Research) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK. He has been a European Research Council (ERC) grant holder, leading a major five-year research project on foreign direct investment (FDI), global value chains (GVCs) and their territorial impacts across the globe. He is currently the LSE Principal Investigator of a large collaborative research project funded by Horizon Europe and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) on inequalities in the era of global megatrends. He also leads a UKRI Metascience research grant, exploring the innovation impact of research infrastructure procurement in “Big Science Beyond Science.”
He is an Editor of Regional Studies and an associate editor of the Journal of Regional Science.
Riccardo has provided academic advice to numerous international organisations (European Commission, OECD, IADB, AIIB and World Bank among others). Riccardo has also served as the Rapporteur of the High-Level Expert Group on Innovative Cities established by the European Commissioner for Research and was a Member of the High-Level Reflection Group on the ‘Future of Cohesion Policy’ established by the European Commission to offer advice and knowledge on maximising the impact of Cohesion Policy.
His research is published in top peer-reviewed journals in economic geography, international economics and international business and management and widely cited in academic and policy circles. His most recent book “Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional Development” (2023, Routledge) explores how regions, cities and clusters can build, embed and reshape global value chains for local enhancement.
