Antonio Andreoni

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ABOUT ANTONIO ANDREONI

Antonio Andreoni is Professor of Development Economics at SOAS University of London and Co-Founding Director of the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation (CSST).Antonio is a political economist focusing on industrial and technological change and its impact on the macroeconomy, labour, society, and ecology. His work investigates the restructuring of capitalist relations at country and global levels and blends in-depth analyses of industrial sectors and context-specific investigations of the role of the state, institutions and industrial policy. In Europe he has worked on key industries such as big pharma, automation and renewable energies, as well as processes of innovative industrial renewal at the regional level. He has conducted extensive research in low and middle-income countries – especially Southern and Eastern Africa – on how to promote sustainable structural transformation, including work on models of production, finance and rents, energy transition, market, organisational and platform power.Formed in the structuralist and institutional political economy heterodox traditions of Bologna and Cambridge, his research has often crossed disciplinary boundaries and has collaborated with political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists, technologists and environmental experts. His work deploys a wide range of methods, both qualitative and quantitative, including primary data collection. He has published over 40 academic papers in international peer review journals, 30 contributions to academic volumes, 4 edited volumes and 1 co-authored book (other 2 in Italian). Antonio has held visiting and honorary positions in various institutions such as Cambridge University, UCL (London), Institut Mines-Telecom (Paris), WiiW (Vienna), Columbia University (New York), University of Johannesburg, and Tsinghua University (Beijing). For over 15 years, he has also acted as an advisor or consultant to numerous governments and international organisations (including the World Bank, OECD and the United Nations). In 2022 he was appointed DG GROW Fellow of the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Directorate General of the European Commission. In 2024 he was appointed Member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council of South Africa. In 2025 he became a Research Fellow of the South African Reserve Bank. In 2026 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine of the USA appointed him to the Ad Hoc International Committee to develop a Roadmap for Transformative Action to Achieve Health for All at Net-Zero Emissions.