Giorgio Di Pietro is a Reader in the Economics of Education. Among his research interests are over-education, returns to education and university drop-out. He has also investigated issues related to equity in education, such as widening participation in university education.

Before joining the Westminster Business School he worked as a scientific officer at the Institute for Prospective and Technological Studies, one of research institutes of the European Commission, and was a teaching assistant at the faculty of Economics of La Sapienza University of Rome.

He has also served as a consultant to various organizations and corporations including the Italian Institute for Foreign Affairs (IAI), Family and Parenting Institute and the University of Bari.

Giorgio holds a BSc in Economics from La Sapienza University of Rome and PhD in Education Economics from Roskilde University (Denmark).

Giorgio joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2009.