Lucia Corno is associate professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Cattolica University in Milan and Executive Director of the Laboratory for Effective Antipoverty Policies (LEAP) at Bocconi University. She received a PhD in Economics from Bocconi in 2009 and she was graduate visiting scholar at the University of Berkeley and at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) in Stockholm. Before joining Cattolica, she held academic positions at University College London and Queen Mary University. She is affiliated with J-PAL, a fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a full member of the EUDN (European Development Research Network). In 2019 she received an ERC Starting Grant to study the reasons behind the persistence of harmful traditions (i.e. female genital cutting, child marriages, "breast-ironing"). She constantly collaborate with International Organizations, governments and NGOs in developing countries and in Italy to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of anti-poverty policies.