Giancarlo Corsetti (born 1960) is an Italian macroeconomist and Professor of Macroeconomics at Cambridge University, fellow of Clare College and the director of the Cambridge Institute for New Economic Thinking. He is best known in academia for his work on open economy macroeconomics and international economics. As of March 2017, the IDEAS/RePEc overall ranking put him as the most influential economist at Cambridge University.
Corsetti has previously taught at the European University Institute in Florence (as Pierre Werner Chair), and the Universities Rome III, Bologna and Yale. He is co-editor of the Journal of International Economics and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, where he served as co-director of the International Macroeconomics Programme between 2004 and 2015. He is a consultant to the European Central Bank and visiting scholar at the Bank of England.
Corsetti is a member of the European Economic Association, where he served in the Council, and as Programme Chairman of the 2007 Annual Congress in Budapest. In 2015, he delivered the Schumpeter Lecture at the Association Meeting in Mannheim.
Giancarlo Corsetti earned a Ph.D. in economics at Yale University (1992), an MA in Economics at New York University (1987) and a Laurea in Economics at Sapienza University of Rome (1984).