Chiara Criscuolo

Principal Economist, International Finance Corporation

Chiara Criscuolo is a Principal economist at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Before the IFC, she was with the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) since 2009. She was in charge of the Productivity and Business Dynamics Division in the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) at the OECD.

Chiara’s work spans the fields of entrepreneurship, enterprise dynamics, productivity and policy evaluation and has played a leading role in advancing the use of firm level data and of microdata projects within the OECD. She has designed and coordinated large cross-country microdata projects on employment dynamics, productivity, as well as research and development (R&D). She co-manages the Global Forum on Productivity and has contributed to key horizontal and high level projects and publications. These include the OECD volumes “Future of Productivity”, “New sources of growth: Knowledge Based capital”, and the “OECD Innovation Strategy”.

Since 2017 she is one of eleven economists appointed to the newly set French National productivity Board.

Her research on innovation, business dynamics, productivity, policy evaluation and international trade has been extensively published in leading academic journals including The American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of International Economics. She acts as reviewer for top ranked academic journals.

Featured work

Book

Sparking Europe’s new industrial revolution: A policy for net zero, growth and resilience

This book assesses what must be done to implement industrial policy in a way that will achieve overarching goals while minimising distortions.

Philippe Aghion, Ketan Ahuja, Chad P. Bown, Uwe Cantner, Chiara Criscuolo, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Mathias Dewatripont, Ricardo Hausmann, Guy Lalanne, Ben McWilliams, Dani Rodrik, Simone Tagliapietra, Alessio Terzi, Cecilia Trasi, Laura Tyson, Reinhilde Veugelers, Georg Zachmann and John Zysman