Paola Profeta is Associate Professor in Public Economics at Università Bocconi, Milano and Coordinator of the Dondena Gender Initiative. She was an undergraduate at Bocconi and received a PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona in 2000. Her research interests are in public economics, political economy and gender economics. Her main fields are Social Security, welfare, and redistributive public policies. Paola has also worked on comparative tax systems and tax policy.