Dr. Rocco Macchiavello was born and grew up in Rapallo, Italy, a relatively small town on the Ligurian Riviera. He studied at the local University of Genoa, before getting his Master in Economics in Paris at the EHESS and then moving on to the London School of Economics and Political Science, for his PhD. Rocco is now back at the LSE as an Associate Professor in Management, after having been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor at Warwick University. Rocco's research interests lie at the intersection of development economics, organizational economics and industrial organization and are primarily concerned with understanding the institutional determinants of, and constraints to, firm performance and industrial development. Dr. Macchiavello has conducted field work in several countries, including Bangladesh, Kenya, India, Myanmar and Rwanda. He is currently working on several research projects, many in the coffee sector in producing countries. He is married and has two kids.