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At Bocconi, Catherine is also a Research Associate at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, the CLEAN Unit for the Economic Analysis of Crime of the BAFFI-CAREFIN research centre and the Bocconi COVID crisis.

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Professor Desmond King is the Andrew W Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College. He holds a BA in Political and Social Science from Trinity College Dublin, an MA and a PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University, and a DLitt from the University of Oxford.

Professor King is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the British Academy. His authored books include, among many others, Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (Harvard University Press) and, with Rogers M Smith, Still a House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama’s America (Princeton University Press).

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Professor Robinson obtained his B.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1982), his M.A. from the University of Warwick (1986), and Ph.D. from Yale University (1993), all in economics.

He is the author (with Daron Acemoglu) of Economic Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Why Nations Fail: The Origins and Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Crown, 2012), and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Penguin, 2019). He is also the co-editor of several books, including among others Africa’s Development in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Natural Experiments in History (Harvard University Press).

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