Tommaso Agasisti

Tommaso Agasisti is a Full Professor at the School of Management, Politecnico di Milano. He currently serves as Associate Dean for International Relations and School Excellence at POLIMI Graduate School of Management and is a member of the Board of Governors at Politecnico di Milano. His academic roles include co-delegate of the Institutions & Public Administrations Area (2012–2019) and Delegate for Accreditation and Rankings. He holds editorial board positions at Educational Researcher, Tertiary Education and Management, and International Journal of Educational Management.

Agasisti earned a PhD in Management Economics and Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Bologna. His teaching focuses on Public Management, Data Analysis for Public Management, and Machine Learning for Social Research at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

His research spans four core areas: (i) statistical methods for evaluating public organization performance (e.g., universities, schools, local governments), (ii) governance models in educational institutions, (iii) public sector accounting, and (iv) digital innovations in public services. Notable contributions include analyzing efficiency in higher education systems, the impact of the Russian Excellence Initiative, and resilience of socio-economically disadvantaged students using PISA data.

He has received the TJ Alexander Fellowship of OECD and contributed to policy debates on educational equity, emergency remote teaching during the pandemic, and digital transformation in public administration. His work often employs advanced econometric techniques and machine learning to address real-world challenges in education and governance.