GAGLIARDI FRANCESCA

Francesca Gagliardi is currently senoir researcher at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Siena and professor of the courses of Statistics for business decision making (Department of Business and Law), Statistics (Department of International Political Sciences), Statistics for Agribusiness (Department of Life Sciences) of the University of Siena. Since the end of the PhD in Applied Statistics, she has concentrated her research activity mainly on the implementation of economic indicators of poverty and well-being from various sides: coss-sectional and longitudinal, multidimensional with fuzzy approach, absolute or relative, monetary and non-monetary, at national or local level and for small areas. She has developed variance estimation methodologies for all these indicators, in particular implementing the Jackknife Repeated Replication Method, which has been officially adopted by Eurostat, the OECD and the Member States of the European Community. Recently, the activity has also shifted to sustainability issues related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda, with the aim of developing multidimensional sustainability indicators and appropriate weights for the variables that make up these indicators, in order to guarantee comparability with various international databases on the subject. Still in the field of sustainability, she is working on various projects: Siena2030 and Arezzo2030 for the development and implementation of indicators for the SDGs at the provincial level, as scientific director; NFD Observatory, to assess the sustainability of large companies from the analysis of Non-Financial Disclosures (NFD), as Project manager; Blue-Deal, a European project for the development of energy from the sea in coastal areas or islands in the Mediterranean; "Fixing the Business of Food" - a joint initiative of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investments and Santa Chiara Lab of the University of Siena aimed at developing surveys to describe the scenarios post COVID-19 in the agrifood sector. She is currently also involved in the EN-TRUST (Enlightened Trust) European project with the aim of analyzing the mechanisms of trust / mistrust in governance. She is currently a consultant for the G.Brodolini Foundation in the context of the European survey on Roma populations 'ROME 2020' and for the BCFN Foundation for the development of the double food / environmental pyramid. She is also an experienced developer of SAS software. She has been involved in many European research projects as a researcher, as head of client relations and database management and SAS expert. She was a consultant for the OECD. From graduation to today you have had teaching experiences on a continuous basis, at various levels: university, research doctorates, masters, international summer schools. You have taught courses related to both basic statistics and advanced statistics. You have also presented the results of your research at international conferences as a speaker. She has been and is supervisor of many master's degree theses and referee for international scientific journals.