BIO

Marzia Fontana, a visiting research scholar at the Levy Institute, is a development economist with particular interests in gender inequalities and international trade, labor markets, and income distribution. Her recent work has focused on modeling gender constraints in general equilibrium models, with applications to Bangladesh and Zambia. Fontana has previously worked at the Trade and Macroeconomics Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D.C. and at the Research Department of the Reserve Bank of Fiji. She has also taught economics for two years at the University of Sussex. Fontana is a member of the IDRC Poverty and Economic Policy research network steering committee, advisor for the Expert Group on Gender and Trade of the UK Department of Trade and Industry, and an associate member of the European Development Research Network (EUDN). Marzia holds a DPhil. in Economics and an MPhil. in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex and a Laurea in Economics and Politics from the University of Florence.