Phone: +39 0172 458542
Email: d.saccone@unisg.it
University of Gastronomic Sciences | Pollenzo Campus
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, 9
fraz. Pollenzo – 12042 Bra (Cn) – Italy
BIOGRAPHY
After graduating in Political Sciences with economic specialization in 2004, she obtained a II level Master’s Degree in Economics at CORIPE Piemonte in 2005 and a PhD in Economics at the University of Turin in 2008. She then was Research Fellow at the “Cognetti de Martiis” Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Turin, where she also held courses in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Development Cooperation, Cultural Industries and Global Markets for several years.
Since 2009 she has been collaborating as an external consultant with the International Training Center of the International Labor Organization (ILO), where she carries out teaching activities at the Master in Management of Development. More recently, she was also a consultant for UNCTAD in the field of global food markets and food security. In 2014 she was co-founder of the Turin Center on Emerging Economies (OEET), a research and dissemination center affiliated to the Collegio Carlo Alberto, for which she is the Director and manages scientific research activities on emerging economies. From 2018 to 2022 she was the President of the Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems (AISSEC).
INSTITUTIONAL POSITIONS
- Convenor of the Graduate Degree Program in Sustainable Food Innovation & Management
- Convenor of the Undergradute degree in gastronomic Sciences and Cultures
- Convenor of the Hybrid Master in Local Food Policy
- Delegate for Academic Training
- Representative COSGA
TEACHING ACTIVITY
- Economics and Development Policy [Graduate Degree in Food Innovation & Management]
- Politiche Economiche e Sostenibilità Alimentare [Undergraduate Degree in Gastronomic Sciences and Cultures]
- Preparatory Workshops [Graduate Degree in Food Innovation & Management]
MAIN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREA in UNISG
SPECIFIC RESEARCH TOPICS
- Sustainable economic development
- Food policies
- Food security
- Globalization and food security
- Emerging economies and patterns of economic development
UNISG RESEARCH PROJECTS
- About the origin. identity, authenticity and contradictions of food
- CEFW – Circular Economy For Wine: the importance of sustainability social for the development of the circular economy applied to Made in Italy secondary agro-industry district of wine
- STAPLES STable food access and prices and lower exposure to shocks