Mario MARINIELLO

Professor Mario Mariniello teaches a course at Natolin titled „Digital Economy.“ The course covers aspects of European digital integration from an economist's perspective and provides students with an analytical framework to understand and discuss the European Commission’s digital agenda. 

He is the author of "Digital Economic Policy", Oxford University Press 2022. He is Non-Resident Fellow at the Brussels based think-tank Bruegel and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Natolin, Poland. He formerly taught at the University of Namur, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and the University of Florence. His main interests are the economics of digital markets, competition policy and the impact of technology in labour markets. 

Professor Mariniello was Senior Fellow at Bruegel, where he launched and led the “Future of Work and Inclusive Growth” project. He also previously led Bruegel's digital and competition policy research agenda. He was Digital Adviser at the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), a European Commission in-house think-tank that operated under the authority of the former Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, a member of the Chief Economist Team at DG Competition (the Commission’s antitrust department), and worked on the use of AI in workplaces at the Commission’s DG Employment. 

He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Organization from the European University Institute (Florence, 2008), a M.Sc. in Economics from CORIPE (Turin, 2003), a BA in Philosophy (KU Leuven, 2025) and a BA in Political Sciences (Florence, 2002).