Mr Andrea Brandolini is Director General for Economics, Statistics and Research at the Bank of Italy.

After studying at the University of Modena and the London School of Economics, he joined the Bank of Italy in June 1992, where he directed the Economic Structure and Labour Market Division in the Department for Structural Economic Analysis from 2007 to 2012 and the Statistical Analysis Directorate from 2015 to 2020. He was chair of the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payments Statistics (CMFB) and a member of the Bureau of the European Statistical Forum (ESF) and the Eurosystem’s Statistics Committee (STC). He was chair of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) and a council member of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) and the Società Italiana di Economia (SIE). He was the Italian representative in the Luxembourg Income Study, where he directed with Timothy M. Smeeding the Luxembourg Wealth Study, a pilot project aimed at constructing a harmonised cross-national database of micro information on household wealth. He was chair of the Istat Commission on the absolute poverty methodology and a member of the Istat Scientific Commission on the Measurement of Well-Being. He was a member of the World Bank Commission on Global Poverty. He was an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality and an editorial board member of the Review of Income and Wealth, the Italian Economic Journal and Politica economica–Journal of Economic Policy. He is a founder of the Italian demography website www.neodemos.it. He co-edited The Great Recession and the Distribution of Household Incomes (with Stephen P. Jenkins, John Micklewright and Brian Nolan, Oxford University Press, 2013), and Anthony B. Atkinson’s posthumous book Measuring Poverty Around the World (with John Micklewright, Princeton University Press, 2019).  In recognition of his work on inequality and poverty, he received the Aldi Hagennars LIS Memorial Award from the Luxembourg Income Study in 1995, the Luigi Tartufari International Prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in 2017, and the Jean-Paul Fitoussi Medal from the Società Italiana di Economia dello Sviluppo (SITES) in 2025.

Andrea Brandolini joined IZA as a Policy Fellow in 2009 and he became a Research Fellow in September 2022.