Giuseppe Tesoriere

Senior Regional and Urban Economist in the Cities Research and Knowledge Exchange, World Resources Institute. WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Giuseppe Tesoriere is senior regional and urban economist in the Cities Research and Knowledge Exchange at World Resources Institute. He leads and conducts economic analyses that help address key knowledge gaps and advance the objectives of WRI Ross Center project teams working globally across urban issues.


Prior to joining WRI, Giuseppe was senior economist (consultant) at UN-Habitat knowledge and innovation branch, and urban economy and finance branch, leading research and analysis, providing advisory support and policy recommendations across a number of fields, including urban economics, mobility, economic geography, housing and innovation in Africa, Middle East, and Latin America. He also has several years’ experience conducting data collection, and studies focussed on agglomeration economies, inequality, and public goods working with World Bank and African Development Bank urban programmes and projects in Eastern Africa. 


In academia, he granted a research fellowship financed by European Union – Interreg V Programme, focussed on regional economics, innovation and spatial inequalities. 


Giuseppe received his PhD in Economics with a thesis on public goods in developing countries cities from “Kore” University of Enna (Italy). He also has holds a Master of Science in Economics and Management of Territory and Tourism University of Palermo (Italy) and has completed various certification courses, prominent ones “Executive Education Programme on Leading Economic Growth” and “Executive Education Programme on Public Finance Management in developing countries” from Harvard Kennedy School; "MIT Metro Lab Initiative" certificate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Overall, he is author of more than thirty quantitative and qualitative research published in peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings, discussion papers and United Nations reports.

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