Donatella Saccone

After graduating in Political Sciences with economic specialization in 2004, she obtained a II level Master’s Degree in Economics at CORIPE Piemonte in 2005 and a PhD in Economics at the University of Turin in 2008. She then was Research Fellow at the “Cognetti de Martiis” Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Turin, where she also held courses in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Development Cooperation, Cultural Industries and Global Markets for several years.

Since 2009 she has been collaborating as an external consultant with the International Training Center of the International Labor Organization (ILO), where she carries out teaching activities at the Master in Management of Development. More recently, she was also a consultant for UNCTAD in the field of global food markets and food security. In 2014 she was co-founder of the Turin Center on Emerging Economies (OEET), a research and dissemination center affiliated to the Collegio Carlo Alberto, for which she is the Director and manages scientific research activities on emerging economies. From 2018 to 2022 she was the President of the Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems (AISSEC).

Delegate for Academic Training

Coordinator of the Undergraduate Degree in Gastronomic Sciences and Cultures

Coordinator of the Hybrid Master in Local Food Policy

Representative COSGA