Michel Serafinelli

Dr. Michel Serafinelli is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at King's Business School, King's College London. His primary research fields are Labour & Regional Economics, with intersections in Environmental Economics and Political Economy. He investigates spatial disparities in labour market outcomes, focusing on the green transition, productivity, regional institutions, and policies like 'levelling up' and 'hitting net zero'.

• Affiliations: Research Fellow at IZA, CESifo, CReAM; Associate Editor at the Economic Journal.
• Education: PhD from UC Berkeley; prior positions at University of Toronto and University of Essex.

His research explores deindustrialization effects, green skills demand, and innovation networks. Key projects include studies on 1,993 cities' deindustrialization impacts and coal phaseout's employment consequences. His work appears in top journals like the Review of Economics and Statistics and Journal of the European Economic Association.

He collaborates with institutions like NBER, CEPR, and ESCoE, and his research has been featured in media such as Forbes, VoxEU, and Resolution Foundation.