Mr Mario Pezzini is Distinguished Fellow of the Center of Development in Jindal University. He is also member of A New Road Think thank (Working with and on Africa) and of the scientific Committee of Europe in Discourse. He is the Former Director of the OECD Development Centre and Former Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary General on Development. Before joining the Development Centre in 2010, Mann Pezzini held several senior management positions in the OECD, where he has been working since 1995 and developed the OECD work on Regional, Urban, Rural Development. Prior to joining the OECD, Mr. Pezzini was Professor in Industrial Economics at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris as well as in US and Italian Universities.
Also, Mr. Pezzini served as an Advisor in the field of economic development, industrial organisation and regional economics in international organisations and think tanks (e.g. ILO, UNIDO, European Commission and Nomisma in Italy).
Mr. Pezzini started his career in the Government office of the Emilia-Romagna Region.