Domenico Rossignoli is graduated in Political Science and International Relations at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, where he also achieved the post-graduate degree (Laurea Specialistica) in International Relations and European Integration, being awarded the Agostino Gemelli Prize "Laureate of the Year". He has got an MSc in Political Science and Political Economy at the London School of Economics in London (UK) and a PhD in Institutions and Politics (Economics field) at UCSC in Milan, carrying out an empirical research on the indirect effect of democracy on long-run economic growth, by the channel of institutions. He is currently Post-Doctoral Research Scholar at the International Economics, Institutions and Development Department at UCSC. He also collaborated with public and private research institutes.