Fabio Pammolli

Fabio Pammolli (born January 11, 1965, in Lucca) is an Italian economist, who since 2016 is professor of finance and data science at Politecnico di Milano, since November 2022 serves as economic advisor to the Minister of Finance and Economy of the Italian Republic and, since May 2024, President of The Italian Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Industry - AI4I.

Biography Pammolli graduated in economics at the University of Pisa and did his doctoral studies at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies.

From 1990 to 2000 he served as an assistant and then as an associate professor at the University of Siena; from 2001 to 2004 he served as full professor at the University of Florence and from 2004 to 2015 he was a full professor at IMT School for Advanced Studies.

Research stays have taken him to the Department of Physics at Boston University, where he collaborated with H.E. Stanley.

He was then a visiting scientist at STICERD at the LSE, OFCE at Sciences Po, the Department of Economics, Harvard University and LIDS, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From 2004 to 2013 he served as the founding rector of the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca and worked there as a professor of economics, finance, and data science.

In 2015 he served as a senior scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology, where he contributed to conceive and design the strategic plan of the Human Technopole.

In 2022 Pammolli was acting as the President of Constructor University (formerly Jacobs University) in Bremen, Germany. In the year of his presidency, Pammolli has successfully initiated a wealth of advancements at the university: he implemented a new organizational structure, initiated new study programs, and completed the transition from Jacobs to Constructor University.

In his research, Pammolli combines methods from statistical physics and economics. He has covered a wide range of topics, which includes the analysis of growth, diversification, instability of companies, economies and financial systems.

Institutional Commitments

From 2015 to 2020 he was a member of the Investment Committee of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) at the European Investment Bank.

From November 2021 onwards he serves as Chairperson of the Investment Committee of InvestEU, the European Commission's new stimulus plan to provide long-term finance for companies and support EU policies.

Since November 2022, he serves as economic adviser to the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance.

Since May 2024, he is president of the Italian Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI4I), the national research facility on artificial intelligence.

He has served on the boards of directors of major corporations and as an advisor to private equity and infrastructure funds. In July 2025, he joined the Board of Directors of SACE . He has also been a regular op-ed contributor to leading Italian newspapers, including Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, La Stampa, and Il Foglio.