Mari Marco

I am a researcher and an entrepreneur with a strong interest in institutional law and economics, international politics, regional industrial economies, and manufacturing value chains. I earned a bachelor’s degree in Juridical Science from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and a master’s degree in International Relations from Harvard University. I am currently a PhD student in Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, as well as a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Industrial Performance Center and a Research Fellow at LSE Cañada Blanch Centre. I co-founded Italia Innovation, an applied research firm rooted in Italy’s industrial districts and globally comparative in scope, with the mission of studying the role of firms as agents within their political economies.