Marzia Fontana has joined the Levy Institute’s program on gender equality and the economy. She 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 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 also taught economics for two years at the University of Sussex. She is a member of the IDRC Poverty and Economic Policy Research Network steering committee, an advisor for the Expert Group on Gender and Trade at the Department of Trade and Industry in the United Kingdom, and an associate member of the European Development Research Network (EUDN). Fontana holds D.Phil. and M.Phil. degrees in economics and development studies, respectively, from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and a Laurea in economics and politics from the University of Florence.