Lorenzo Mascioli is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute. His research explores how communities engage in public policy to foster local development, drawing on different disciplines — economic geography, political economy, and public policy — and combining different methods — spatial data analysis, social network analysis, and qualitative fieldwork.

During his PhD, he has held teaching positions at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, and visiting positions at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, and the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Princeton University. Before starting his PhD, he was the Policy Advisor for Financial Inclusion and Capability at HM Treasury in London. He holds a B.Sc. in Political Science and Economics from University College London, an M.Sc. in Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an M.Res. in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute. From November 2025, he will be a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies, Sciences Po.