Giovanni Valensisi is Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), where he contributes to UNCTAD’s flagship reports on Africa and on the Least Developed Countries. A development economist with more than twelve years of international experience in research and policy analysis, prior to his current post Mr. Valensisi worked on trade negotiation issues at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Addis Ababa – Ethiopia), and carried out various other assignments at UNCTAD, UNDP-Syria and several international NGOs in Italy, Guatemala and Ecuador. He holds a MSc in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pavia, where he was also Research Fellow. Mr. Valensisi has published a dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on international trade, sustainable development, industrialization and development finance.
His aspiration, as member of the Expert Working Group on Global Public Investment, is to contribute to the ongoing debate on a notion that could lay the foundations for a more inclusive and sustainable recovery post-COVID-19, while going beyond the traditional donor-recipient dichotomy.