Alessio joined IZA as Director of Strategy and Research Management in March 2014. He studied Business Administration in Passau and Dublin. He successfully completed the Advanced Studies Program in Economic Policy Research at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and received his doctorate (summa cum laude) for his dissertation "Incentive Models of the Labor Market" from Kiel University in October 2009. His main research interests are in the field of labor economics with a strong policy focus especially in the areas of employment incentives and policies, globalization and welfare state reform as well as labor market models and dynamics.