Davide Viaggi was born in Bologna, 14 october 1967. Bachelor
degree in agricultural science in 1991, was beneficiary of
scholarships at the University of Bologna, Aberdeen, Oxford. In
1996 obtained the European Master in Agricultural Economics and
Agribusiness at ENSAR, Rennes (France) and got the PhD in 1997, at
the University of Siena.
From 2001 to 2008 was researcher in Agricultural economics at
the Department of Agricultural Economics and Engineering of the
University of Bologna, Faculty of Agriculture. From 2008 and 2019 Davide was Associate professor in the Department od Agricultural Sciences and is currently full professor at the Department of Agriculture and Food Science (DISTAL).
Participated in about 100 research projects funded by the European Union,
the Ministry of University and Research, Region Emilia-Romagna. Among them, he coordinated 5 EU projects (CAP-IRE and CLAIM of FP7, PROVIDE and CONSOLE in H2020, BIOBEC in BBI) and participated in other 30 funded by the European Commission framework programs.
The main research themes concern the common agricultural policy
(CAP), the bioeconomy, the economics and management of water resources and the
evaluation of agri-environmental policies. Main economic tools used include linear
programming, principal-agent models, multicriteria analysis,
cost-benefits analysis and externality accounting and
evaluation.
The results have been presented in over 300 publications. These include 15 books among which The Bioeconomy: Delivering Sustainable Green Growth, CABI, Wallingford (UK), 2018, pp. 224.
He was also editor of 15 books including the Handbook on the Bioeconomy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (UK), 2025.
Participated in the organisation of several national and
international conferences and is referee for some of the main
national and internaitonal journals of the concerned scientific
sectors.
Since 2001 teaches courses in Economics, Rural appraisal, Real estate
appraisal, Economics, Environmental economics, Policy evaluation,
firm management at the Universities of Bologna and
Ferrara.
Is responsible of Socrates/Erasmus exchanges with the
Universities of Iasi, Girona, Gent, Rennes, Valladolid.
He was president of the Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA), vice-president of the Italian Association of Agricultural Scientific Societies (AISSA) and is member of the main national and international associations in
the sector of agricultural economics and environmental
economics.
Davide is active in consultancy activities for national and international bodies such as the European Commission, Eurostat, European Investment Bank, Basin Authorities, Regions and Reclamation Consortia.
