Matteo Richiardi

Matteo Richiardi is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis (CeMPA) at the University of Essex, UK. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Turin (2004) and has held roles including EUROMOD Director, Visiting Professorships, and Editorial leadership at the International Journal of Microsimulation. His research focuses on microsimulation, agent-based modeling, inequality, welfare policies, and labor market dynamics. Richiardi has led numerous grants (e.g., NIHR, ESRC) totaling over £3M, analyzing Universal Credit impacts, health equity, and digital transformation effects. His work bridges policy evaluation and computational methods, with over 50 publications in journals like Socio-Economic Review and BMJ Open. He supervises PhD students and manages interdisciplinary teams, emphasizing open-source tools like JAS-mine and SimPaths.

Education: PhD in Economics (Turin, 2004); MSc (UCL, 2000); BSc (Turin, 1998).
Key Roles: Director CeMPA (2020–), ISER Researcher, Affiliate at INET Oxford.
Research Themes: Social care policies, Universal Basic Income, mental health disparities, tax-benefit systems, and digital transformation.
Grants: Recent projects include evaluating health impacts of welfare policies (NIHR) and modeling EU labor markets (H2020).

Publications: Recent work addresses Universal Credit’s mental health effects, digital transformation’s labor impacts, and microsimulation frameworks. His methods emphasize dynamic life course modeling and policy simulation.

Awards & Recognition: Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Microsimulation, Board member of the International Microsimulation Association, and frequent media contributor on welfare policy.