Team

Massimo Florio is the President and founder of CSIL, Centre for Industrial Studies. He is one of the leading European experts in regional development and evaluation research and he has a very strong knowledge of EU policies. He is currently Professor of Economics of European Integration (Jean Monnet Chair), University of Milan and Dean, Faculty of European Economic Studies, Head Department of Economics. His research interests include regional development economics, welfare economics, public investment appraisal, privatization and regulation, growth of public expenditures, small business economics.
He is the author of the Guide of Cost-Benefit Analysis of Investment Projects adopted by the European Commission, DG Regional Policy, where he has more than 15 years of experience as and advisor of the Evaluation Unit. He was also an independent expert appointed by the European Commission in the Italian Technical Group for the Performance Reserve, Objective 1 Regions, and formerly reported to the Commission on the Objective 2 programming documents in Italy, and several other evaluations.
florio@csilmilano.com

Ugo Finzi has over thirty years of experience in international development evaluation and management. He has been associated since 1966 with the World Bank, where he has held a variety of staff and management positions, related to policy, sector and project work. He is a senior evaluator and exhibits longstanding experience in the formulation of evaluation methodology and applied evaluation to development projects and other fields. His other specialisations include coordination of development assistance, policy advice and sector work on energy, industry, municipal services, environment, assistance to development of small and medium-sized enterprises, teaching of project analysis. He has been selected as a trainer for the EC officials of the Evaluation Unit of the DG Regio for evaluation and project appraisal.
In the early 1980s, he held management responsibility for all World Bank energy and industry activities in Hungary, Romania and Yugloslavia (as Assistant Director, Projects Department, Europe, Middle East and North Africa Region).
finzi@csilmilano.com

Alberto Marcati is professor of Marketing at Luiss University of Rome where he teaches Economics and business management. Formerly, he was the Chairman for the Degree course in Economics of tourism and Head of the Co-ordination centre of Rimini branch of Bologna University. His visiting positions included:1986, Mit (Boston); 1992 Harvard Business School of Cambridge (Massachusetts); 1995 Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston (Illinois); 1996 University of Michigan Business School of Ann Arbor (Michigan).
He is member of the Italian Academy of business economics, of the European Marketing Academy, of the American Marketing Association and the Informs - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
a.marcati@luiss.it

He is an economist, specialising in forestry. He worked as a consultant for the FED, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Bank, FAO and ENCC, the European Commission in several areas of the world. Professor of forestry economics at the University of Padua, he is Member of the 'Societą Italiana degli Economisti Agrari', of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, of the 'Accademia Italiana di Scienze Forestali', fellow of the Wolfson College (Oxford), member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Italian Foresters, Italian representative in the Executive Committee of the Union of European Foresters.
Among his international collaborations, he was hired as a consultant in Cameron (EC Project on Wood and other energy resources in the Garoua region), Tunisia (Economic analysis of forestry and soil conservation WB projects), Argentina (Plywood and sawmill in Rio Negro State - ENCC Feasibility study for a joint venture), Croatia (FAO Forest and wood sector industry sectorial study for the Agricultural sector review), Vietnam (FAO Programme "Country capacity strengthening for NFAP Implementation in Vietnam").
davide.pettenella@unipd.it

He graduated in Economics at the Bocconi University of Milan. He specialises in administrative and tax law and manages a consulting firm to assist companies and individuals.
m.destefano@studio-destefano.it

He is the marketing director of CSIL. With a Laurea Degree in Economics from the University of Palermo and a Master in Business Administration at the Bocconi University of Milan, he has longstanding experience in international market research and economic analysis for SMEs support consulting. He carries out market research and economic analysis on the main sectors of labour-intensive industries in the world, with experience of more than 150 projects in 20 countries.
volpe@csilmilano.com

Partner since 1992 and member of the Direction since 1997, she coordinates the market research unit of CSIL with a production of more than 70 reports a year. She holds a laurea degree in Economics, a Master from the ISTAO of Ancona and an upper degree in International Business Strategy and Market Research at the LSE.
pugliese@csilmilano.com

She holds a degree in Economics from Bocconi University and after a stage at UNESCO, Paris, she started her collaboration as a research fellow at CSIL. She currently is a CSIL Partner and Director of the Development and Evaluation Unit. She has also had teaching appointments fellowship at the University of Milan in Macroeconomics, Economics of European Integration and Cost-benefit analysis. Her experience includes the following projects: Ex-post evaluation of the Observatory of European SMEs, Evaluation and Planning for the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade, appraisal of Development plan of Mezzogiorno (European Commission), collaboration in the drafting of the EC Guide of cost-benefit analysis. She recently has been involved in the Sustainable Development Programme for the War affected Areas in Croatia, funded by CARDS.
vignetti@sagittea.com

She holds a degree in Economics and specialised in business management at ISTAO, Ancona. She coordinates a master degree in a specific SME sector and is Director of the Business Consulting Unit at CSIL. She specialises in consulting in economic and financial analysis for the competitiveness of SMEs.
paoletti@csilmilano.com

She has longstanding experience in the wood technology sector. She is the director responsible for the magazine "L'industria del legno e del mobile", specifically in charge with the section on technology and innovation.
renatadan@tin.it

He is a partner of CSIL since 1997. He is an engineer specialising in evaluation, planning and management of projects and programmes at a regional and national level. He is an expert in the energy sector and in the water industry, with a special focus on Italian Mezzogiorno. He has been appointed as Advisor for several water and environmental projects by national and international bodies. His experience encompasses all phases of project cycle management: from ex-ante evaluation and feasibility studies, to operational planning, follow-up of authorising procedures, organisations and coordination of implementation, ex-post evaluation.
He collaborated to the ex post evaluation of the Integrated Mediterranean Programmes and he performed several cost-benefit analysis especially within the framework of regional programmes financed by the European Commission (DG REGIO) and in the field of water management.
gencom@tin.it

He is partner of CSIL since 1998, in such a capacity he carries out international industrial development projects, and research and consultancy in wood processing and furniture sector. He is free lance consultant and professional engineer since 1990. Among his main current clients he works for "Studiare Sviluppo" in-house agency of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, Department for Development and Cohesion policies for coordinating EC institutional twinning projects and bilateral cooperation projects aimed at transferring the Italian experience on EC Structural Funds programming and management (in Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Malta, Croatia, among others) and for various Italian Regions as senior consultant in EC Structural Funds implementation (Obj. 1 and obj. 2, CIP Interreg, ERDF Innovative actions).Further collaborations include IADB - Inter-American Development Bank of Washington-D.C. for projects concerning SMEs, regional and local development and competitiveness in Latin America and ERVET - Regional Development Agency of Emilia-Romagna Region of Bologna (Italy) on regional development projects. In ERVET in the early '90, he worked as responsible for Regional Planning Unit.
rossopa@tin.it

She is a CSIL partner and senior consultant. She holds a laurea degree in modern literature, specialising in industrial history. A senior expert in sector analysis, she makes use of market common survey tools such as interviews, turnover analysis and analysis of main competitiveness indicators.
castellina@csilmilano.it

She has a a 15-year experience in the management of all general affairs connected with the carrying out of economic studies and research, like project secretariat, public relations, reports editing, administrative arrangements, translations and others.
coccordini@csilmilano.com

She holds a degree in Political Sciences (Milan) with a major in statistics. She is a partner of Csil, in charge with quantitative analysis of business data. Her research experience includes the preparation of a database on structural data of 103 provinces in Italy, the management of CSIL econometric model specializing in forecast for some SMEs sectors, design and management of a large database of import export data for more than 50 countries, sector analysis for more than 15 SMEs industries, biannual business surveys with more than 1200 interviews, rates of return data elaboration for EBRD, EU, World bank projects. She collaborates in the teaching of economics in the University of Milan, and is the author of some research papers published in learned journals in economics. She has a thorough knowledge of Italian industrial districts.
colautti@csilmilano.it

She is the editor responsible for CSIL magazines and relations with press. She is an expert in the identification of design and consumption trends for the furniture sector. She collaborated in several international projects dealing with SMEs in Latin America and Europe.
govoni@csilmilano.com

She graduated in Political Science at the University of Milan specialising in statistical analysis and quantitative methods. She has longstanding experience processing data and building databases.
ceciliapisa@virgilio.it

She holds a laurea degree at DES, Bocconi University (Milan), specialising in statistical analysis. She is responsible for the statistical unit and world reports, and she carries out sector competitiveness analysis for international markets.
tracogna@csilmilano.com