
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

The one promise and many perils of resurgent industrial policy
What are the challenges and implications of industrial policy in today’s evolving global landscape?

Industrial strategies for Europe’s green transition
Industrial policies are not necessarily incompatible with competition and should be designed to not slow down structural change and business dynamics.

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.

Corporate investment during the COVID-19 crisis
How did corporate investment fare during the pandemic? Is government support sufficient for firms, both in the short term and in the long term?