Andrea Faccini, Ph.D. :

M.Sc. in Political Economy and Ph.D. in Statistical Economy at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. He has been an Eurispes Italia consultant four years long and He has worked for one year at the B.C.C. Cassa Rurale di Saone (Trentino). He is now a statistical researcher at 'La Sapienza' University in the framework of a project on behalf of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (DISET). His business activity covers multiple fields, such as spacial econometrics, spacial statistics, time series analysis, Real Business Cycle, statistical inference, regional economy, economical convergence and bench marketing.

Nicola Nescatelli:

M.Sc. in Physics and best score XXIII cycle Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in Finance and Economy at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. Arguments of his thesis are the Semi-Markov, Markov and Rewards processes and their application in Finance and Economy. Winner of a PRIN project funded by the Ministry of Instruction, University and Research, he applied the Hidden Markov theory with multiple states to describe the exchange rate cycle and to detect fiscal fraud. He worked at Studioacra consulting group as quantitative finance consultant specialized in derivatives and credit risk modeling.

Lorenzo Orifici, Ph.D.:

M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics. He worked on the ApeNext and IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputers for a period of four year. In the framework of numerical simulation his main focus was data generation and analysis. Expert of Monte Carlo methods and of the main O.O.P. languages (such as C++, python, Fortran and C), he has also experience of System Administration for the main Linux Distros, Linux shell scripting, system full and para virtualizion with the main clients on the market (Oracle and Virtualbox VM). In Financial field His expertise covers the main interest rate models and option pricing dynamics.

Riccardo Benini, Ph.D.:

M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics. After a period at the Queen Mary College (University of London) at the Department of Mathematics with a Fondazione Angelo Della Riccia fellowship, he spent the last five years at the Physics Dept of "Sapienza" as PostDoc. He is author/coauthor of about thirty scientific publications on international papers and of a specialist book about cosmology. Currently his main interest focus is about interest rate models, exchange rate models and option pricing dynamics.

Fabio Pallini:

Ten years of programming experience in informatics field; currently He is a Project Manager in the development of Enterprise multiplatform applications for Economics, Finance, Energy, Geology and Public security. Specific and deep knowledge of Java, VB, Oracle /PLSql, C#, C, Cobol.

Oksana Grygorenko:

M.Sc. in Economy, II level Master in International Politics. Five years-long experience in marketing and communication, procurement fields in the international banking group. Fluent English, Russian, Ukrainian (native speaker), Italian and French. One year experience matured during a period of stage for Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ukraine.

Marina De Angelis:

M.Sc. in Political Sciences and Ph.D. candidate in Financial and Monetary Markets. Her Ph.D thesis subject is about Microfinance Social Performance and impact in developing countries. She is actually working on a project founded by the Foreign Affair Ministry and she is a researcher on a project on behalf of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (DISET). Teaching assistant of 'Growth and Development Economics' at the university of Rome 'La Sapienza'.

Francesco Livi, Ph.D.:

M.Sc. in Statistical Science cum laude and Ph.D. in Economical Science. His main activity has been focused on spatial econometrics. Winner of a PRIN on the study of sectorial productivity indicators for the Euro zone. He worked at Unioncamere on the project 'Focus sulle piccolo e medie imprese' (PMI). Currently He works at the Foreign Market Institute (ICE) in the Research and Statistics Area. He is also expert in business management.

Sumaya Karolina Ali Brahim:

Ms.C and Ph.D. candidate in Economics. Today she is Teaching Assistant at Fordham University of New York Specialized in Time Series Analysis, Panel data analysis and wage/income decompositions, econometrics, Labour Economics and Wage Inequality in Latin America and the United States. Deep knowledge of scientific and econometrics software such as Matlab, Stata, R, Svar, Gretl. She speaks Italian and English (very fluently), and Polish (native tongue).