Maria Savona is Professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Economics and Finance at LUISS University, Rome and Professor of Economics of innovation at SPRU, Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the recipient of the Premio Linceo for Economics awarded by Accademia dei Lincei in 2023. She was previously at the University of Cambridge, UK, Universities of Strasbourg and Lille 1, France. Her research focuses on the effects of technical change and innovation on employment and wage inequality; innovation and industrial policy; barriers to innovation; the structural change of the sectoral composition of economies, particularly the emergence of global value chains in services. More recently, she works on the economics and governance of data.