Alessia Amighini is the Senior Associate Research Fellow at Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) and Co-Head of Asia Program. She is also Assistant Professor of Economics and International Economics at the Department of Economic and Business Studies (DiSEI) at Università del Piemonte Orientale (Novara, Italy), and Adjoint Professor of International Economics at Università Cattolica (Milan, Italy). She is currently Visiting Scholar at the Department of International Business and Economics at the University of Greenwich (London, UK). She previously worked as Associate Economist at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland).