Lorenzo Mascioli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP), Sciences Po Paris. He completed his doctoral studies at in political and social sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). During this time, he held teaching positions at the EUI’s Florence School of Transnational Governance and visiting positions at Sciences Po Paris, via the Erasmus+ Program, and Princeton University, via the Fulbright Schuman Program. Earlier, he served as Policy Advisor for Financial Inclusion and Capability at HM Treasury in London. He holds a BSc in Political Science and Economics from UCL, an MSc in Political Economy from the LSE, and an MRes and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the EUI.

Lorenzo’s research focuses on territorial disparities and public policies for territorial development. He is particularly interested in why seemingly similar interventions succeed in some places but fail in others. To address this question, he examines local mobilization around development policy across three stages: when communities seek to assemble the necessary resources, including funding and technical expertise; when they seek to use these resources to design and execute interventions; and when they seek to leverage these interventions to activate self-sustaining development processes.

• Mascioli, L. & Leek, L. (2025). What does it take to organise development projects? Spatial and temporal effects in Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Regional Studies, 59(1), 2587809. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2025.2587809
• Ballantyne, S. & Mascioli, L. (2024). Spaces of subsidiarity: A comparative inquiry into the social agenda of Cohesion Policy. Social Policy & Administration, 58(4), pp. 605-620. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/spol.13006

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