Michele Pellizzari is Professor of Economics in the Economics Department at the University of Geneva, where he is also the director of the Laboratoire d'Èconomie Appliquée. He has previously worked as a Labour Market Economist at the OECD in Paris (France) and as Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy). He’s also Research Affiliate of CEPR (London), CREAM (London) and IZA (Bonn). He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.

His main research interests lie in the area of labour economics, empirical microeconomics, microeconometrics.

He is Senior Fellow of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti.