Mara Grasseni is associate professor at the University of Bergamo. She obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Milan. She was visiting scholar at the University of Nottingham, UK and research fellow at Fondazione ENI Mattei and IRER (Istituto Regionale di Ricerca della Lombardia). Her main fields of interest are: international economics (foreign direct investment and multinational companies); wage differentials; evaluation of public policies; non-profit economy.