Dario Sansone is a Senior Lecturer (tenured Assistant Professor) in the Department of Economics at the University of Exeter in the UK. He received his undergraduate and master degree in Economics from the University of Turin in Italy, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University in the US. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Vanderbilt University in the US. Previously, he worked as a consultant and a researcher for several institutions, including the Development Research Group (DEC) and the Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) at the World Bank, the Gender and Diversity Division at the Inter-American Development Bank, CeRP - Collegio Carlo Alberto, and LISER. He is an applied microeconomist with interests in LGBTQ issues, Machine Learning, Gender, and Education.

His research has appeared in leading economic journals, including the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Management Science, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Banking & Finance, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and the Economics of Education Review. In addition, He presented his research at international conferences such as the Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, the Society of Labor Economists, the Royal Economic Society, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the Centre for the Study of African Economies, as well as in academic seminars at universities around the world. His research has received mainstream media coverage from, among the others, The Economist, The Guardian, Financial Times, and Forbes.

Dario Sansone joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in September 2020 and was promoted to IZA Research Fellow in January 2025.