Gian Luigi Albano is Head of Research and Development at Consip, the National Central Purchasing Body, Italy. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and a B.A. (Hons) from the Università “L. Bocconi” (Milan, Italy).
Before joining Consip, Dr Albano has been lecturing at the Department of Economics of University College London from 1999 until 2005. His research topics belong to the flourishing field of the law and economics of public procurement, and his research papers are published in several international peer-reviewed journals. He is invited professor at the Universities of Turin and LUISS “G. Carli” Rome, where he teaches both at the undergraduate and the post-graduate level, as well as invited lecturer at the Italian School of Public Administration and the ITC-ILO (Turin, Italy).
Dr Albano serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Procurement. He is an expert on public procurement for the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank, the OECD, SIGMA (joint venture between the OECD and the European Union), and the United Nations, and is currently advising the Italian Treasury Department on the “Emission Trading Scheme”.