Research: Role of Governance and Valuation for Public Missions on Digital Transformation
RICCARDO ZECCHINELLI
E-mail address: riccardo.zecchinelli@gmail.com
Phone: +44-7578121911
Nationality: Italian, British
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Oct/ 2022 Italian National Cybersecurity Agency Cabinet Office - Advisor on Investment Programs
Oct/ 2019 - Oct/2022 UK Cabinet Office - Chief Economist's Office
Cabinet Office (CO) supports the Prime Minister and ensure the effective running of government. It is also the corporate headquarters for
government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and it takes the lead in
certain critical policy areas.
Jan/ 2020 Visiting Fellow – Birkbeck University of London
Centre for Innovation Management Research – Lecturer and Researcher on themes involved public policies on innovation, AI for Public Good and productivity in the Public Sector.
Profile: http://www7.bbk.ac.uk/cimr/people/visiting-fellows/riccardozecchinelli/
Chair and guest speaker in the event “Technology transformation for Public
Good”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a5HV2Xa2no
Jan/ 2018 - Oct/2019 UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
BEIS is a government department which brings together responsibility for business, industrial strategy, and science and innovation with energy and climate change policy
Feb/ 2017 – Nov/2017 Volunteer economist – Pro Bono Economics
Founder and project manager of the skills-based volunteering programme with Pro Bono Economics, which involved planning the resources allocation and managing a team of eleven people and provide ad hoc consultancy to financial education MyBanK charity with the pursue to deliver a final economic evaluation report.
Dec/2015 - Dec/2017 Ofwat - Senior Economist
The Water Services Regulation Authority, or Ofwat, is the body responsible for economic regulation of the privatised water and sewerage industry in England.
April/2014 - Dec/2015 NHSI - Senior Policy Advisor
NHS Improvement (NHSI) is responsible for overseeing foundation trusts and NHS trusts, as well as independent providers that provide NHS-funded care.
August/2013 – February/2014 Competition Markets Authority - Economist London, UK
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is a non-ministerial
government department in the United Kingdom, responsible for
strengthening business competition and preventing and reducing anti-competitive activities.
Sep/2012 – Mar/2013 IESE Business School - Research Assistant Barcelona, Spain
Develop and support the research programme of the UN Specialist Centre on PPPs in Smart and Sustainable Cities (PPP for Cities).
Promoter of the Smart City platform in the municipality of Perugia.
Oct/2011 – Mar/2012 Lear Lab - Junior Economist Roma, Italy
Lear is a specialized economic consultancy that strives to offer a wide
range of services in the field of competition policy and regulation.
Nov/2010 – June/2011 Department of Economics and Territory - Project Manager Roma, Italy
Application of Contract Theory and Procurement Economics in a Due
Diligence project in Urban Regeneration project.
Feb/2011 – Jun/2011 Ministry of Internal Affairs - Stageur Roma, Italy
Application of Procurement economics on European funds management: FER, SOLID with tutor doctor Angelo Carboni.
May/2009 – Jan/2010 Ministry of Finance and Economics - Stageur Roma, Italy
Application of Real Estate finance and Contract theory and team working activity with other ministerial managers in several projects.
Lead research activity on: Social Housing in Italy and the National property fund, with tutor doctor Tiziana Mazzarocchi.
Feb/2009 – Jul/2009 Health Ministry - Statistician Roma, Italy
Data analysis with STATA on health econometrics aiming at evaluating
Health Costs in Italy, with supervisor professor Vincenzo Atella.
EDUCATION
Sept/2018 – ongoing University College of London London, UK
Modules in MSc Data Analytics for Government
Main subjects: Data Science techniques, Analytic Methods for Policy, Programming for business analytics, Forecasting, Spatial Analysis, Machine Learning
Sept/2012 – July/2013 Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Barcelona, Spain
Master’s in Competition and Market Regulation
Main subjects: Competition Economics, Market Regulation, Industrial
Organization, Competition Law and Micro-econometrics
Dissertation: Competitive assessment of hospital mergers in UK
Oct/2007 – Nov/2010 University Tor Vergata Roma, Italy
Master of Science in European Economy and Business Law
Dissertation: PFI in Affordable Housing in Italy and in UK, with Professor
Elisabetta Iossa
Sep/2003 – Oct/2007 University Tor Vergata Roma, Italy
Bachelor’s Degree in European Economics
Dissertation: The Occupational insertion of resident foreigners in the Italian
Labor Market, with professor Pasquale Scaramozzino
Sep/2006 – May/2007 Universidad Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain
Socrates- Erasmus Exchange program
PUBLICATIONS
‘Laziodisu Student Residence PPP: An example of Best Practice, (Riccardo Zecchinelli, Biancamaria
Raganelli), Regione Lazio, Roma (2011), http://ideas.repec.org/d/dtrotit.html
‘PFI in Affordable Housing in Italy and in UK’, (Riccardo Zecchinelli, Elisabetta Iossa), Centro ‘Alberto
Beneduce’ – Banca Dexia Crediop, Roma (2012), http://www.dexiacrediop.it/cgi/bjcms.custom.H_Site_Index.showPage?section=64
‘Translation from narrative text to standard codes variables with Stata’, (Federico Bellotti, Domenico
Depalo, Riccardo Zecchinelli), Number 3, pp. 458–481, The Stata Journal (2010), http://www.statajournal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=dm0050
‘Collective Redress in Antitrust", A policy evaluation for the European Parliament, LearLab (2012)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201206/20120613ATT46782/20120613ATT467
82EN.pdf
LANGUAGES
Italian: Native language
English: Excellent knowledge, written and oral
Spanish: Excellent knowledge, written and oral
French: Beginner Level (Institut Français du Royaume-Uni)
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Office: Word, Excel (FAST modelling), PowerPoint, Outlook
Statistics and Econometrics packages: R, Stata, Eviews, Python
Project Management: Trello, Jira, Slack
AWARDS
Data Science Campus MDataGov Sponsorship 2018-2019
2012 ‘Mauro Cicchinè’ Award (instituted by Research Centre ‘Alberto Beneduce’ of Dexia Crediop
Bank, dedicated to best nationwide Master or PhD dissertation in the research sector of Private Public
Partnerships): http://www.dexia-crediop.it/cgi/bjcms.custom.H_Site_Index.showPage?section=64
2018 BEIS 'individual' bonus recognition (for the contribution made to BEIS between August and
November 2018)
2016 Ofwat 'individual' bonus recognition (for the contribution made to Ofwat between February 2016
and July 2016 - especially for the support provided on the charging workstream)
2014 Competition Commission 'Best Performance Team' award arrangement (for the contribution
made in the Payday lending market investigation)
APMG accreditation for Business Case Review Master Class
INTERESTS
Playing soccer and tennis, at an amateur level and playing pianoforte and classical guitar
Reading Anglo - American literature