Lorenzo is a PhD candidate in Transnational Governance at the Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. His research focuses on the political economy of the Arab world, with a special attention to the international political economy determinants of underdevelopment, social conflict and its political outcomes, since the 2011 uprisings. Lorenzo has a Master degree in International Relations (University of Bologna) and a post-graduate degree (Master di II livello) in Big Data and Social Mining (University of Pisa). He also completed an internship at IRPET (Istituto Regionale Programmazione Economica Toscana) studying the global value chains through the lens of the “Network Analysis”.

Research interests: Political economy of the Arab world, international political economy, international labour movement, labour and digital transformations, World-System Analysis, Marxism, Gramscian studies.