Andrea Tesei

Andrea Tesei is a Professor in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. Andrea is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE). His research interests are in political economy and economic development, with a main focus on the political and economic consequences of the diffusion of traditional and new media, and on the relationship between natural resources and political stability. His research has been published in The American Economic Review, Econometrica, The Review of Economics and Statistics and the Annual Review of Economics, among others, and it has been featured in major media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times and the Guardian. Andrea joined Queen Mary after receiving his PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2012. In 2018/2019 he was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University.