He holds the Ameritech Chair of Economic Development at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs 

Other merits are:

• Director of the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University
• Research fellow at the CEPR in London
• Honorary professor at WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany

He is full professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Milan.

Other merits are:

• Research fellow at IZA-Bonn
• Honorary Professor at the Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex
• An External Associate at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), University of Warwick