Giuliano Resce is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Molise.  His research focuses on Institutional Economics and equity and efficiency in non-market sectors. He has consolidated expertise in Digital Methods, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Text Mining, and Impact Evaluations. Before joining the University of Molise, he has been Research Fellow for SOSE S.p.A. (Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance), the Italian National Research Council (CNR), and the Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence. He has been Visiting Fellow at ETH Zürich, the University of Portsmouth, the University of Sheffield, and the World Bank Headquarters. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from Roma Tre University and a master’s in Political Science from the University of Florence. He has been an advisor at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), the European Commission, Joint Research Center, and the European Investment Fund (EIF). He has been part of the group of experts for the Department for Cohesion Policies at the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers. He is an advisor for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), SOSE S.p.A, and IFEL Fondazione ANCI.