Alessia Paccagnini is an Associate Professor of Economics at University College Dublin and a Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) of the Australian National University. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University and has several papers published in top journals, mainly in the fields of macroeconometrics and forecasting. Prof. Paccagnini is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Finance and Economics and an editorial member of Forecasting and Digital Finance. She is among top 5% Female Economists and the Top 5% authors in European Union.