Paola Sapienza — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

J.P. Conte Family Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution (since 2024)
PhD in Economics from Harvard University (1998)
Director of the American Finance Association (2011-2014)
Independent board member of Assicurazioni Generali SpA (2010-2019)
Lead Independent Director at TIM (2021-2024)
Board member at Ares Private Market Fund (since 2022)
Research on cultural economics, social capital, and financial development

Biography

Paola Sapienza is an American and Italian economist currently serving as the J.P. Conte Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a position she has held since 2024.

She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a research affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Her primary fields of interest include financial economics, cultural economics, and political economy.