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Antonio Andreoni is Professor of Development Economics at the Department of Economics of SOAS University of London and Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation (CSST).

He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor at the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London (UCL, direct by Mariana Mazzucato), UK. He also holds an ASN National Habilitation to Full Professor in Economics in Italy.

At SOAS, Antonio is Convenor for Research and Knowledge Exchange for the College of Development, Economics and Finance (CODEF) and Chair of the SOAS Knowledge Exchange Committee. He previously served as Head of Research for Department of Economics and Research Director of the Anti-Corruption Evidence Consortium (SOAS-ACE). For over a decade Antonio has acted as an advisor to several international organisations – including UNIDO, UNCTAD, ILO, UNDP, World Bank, OECD – and national governments in industrial policymaking, including the EU Commission, UK, Germany, Finland, Portugal, South Africa, Mauritius, Tanzania and Uganda. In 2023 he was an advisor to the EU Commission’s Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW).

Antonio is a co-Editor of Competition and Change and of the European Journal of Development Research. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Italian Economic Journal and of the Journal of International Business Policy.

Antonio's research aims at understanding how value is created, captured, and distributed within and across different sectoral value chains, industrial ecosystems, and institutional political economy contexts. His research blends ‘productionist’ and political economy perspectives to disentangle processes of development and structural transformation in an age of ecological and social crises. His research focuses on how production, technological and organisational capabilities develop, as well as how industrial ecosystems innovate, diversify and become more sustainable. He studies how large corporations and digital platforms shape markets and industries, and how financialisation, rents capture and corruption processes destroy the productive fabric of the society.[1]

His research has given particular emphasis to the role of the state, including regional governments, with a focus on industrial policy design and implementation. As co-Director of CSST Antonio focuses on four inter-linked research areas – energy transition, mineral resources, reorganization of the international supply chain, and construction of new infrastructure – as well as two cross-cutting themes, that is, industrial policy and new business models, including the role of venture capital. Antonio’s research has received funding from DFID, Hyundai Motor Group, Gatsby Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, TLcom Capital, African Climate Foundation and UNU-WIDER.

Antonio has held affiliations at Cambridge University (Institute for Manufacturing), Columbia University (Initiative for Policy Dialogue), Tsinghua University (Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance) Grandes Ecoles (Institut Mines-Télécom Business School), University of Bologna (Faculty of Economics), LUISS, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (Potsdam) and AIR-Net Academic Industry Research Network. Antonio holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and he is Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.[2]

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  1. ^ Andreoni, Antonio (2014-06-01). "Structural learning: Embedding discoveries and the dynamics of production". Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. Embedding production. 29: 58–74. doi:10.1016/j.strueco.2013.09.003. ISSN 0954-349X.
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  • Andreoni, A. (2014). Structural learning: Embedding discoveries and the dynamics of production. STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS, 29, 58–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2013.09.003
  • Andreoni, A. (2015). The political economy of industrial policy: After the crisis, back on the agenda (U. Mattei & J. Haskell, Eds; WOS:000465519900022; p. 367). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781005354
  • Andreoni, A. (2017). Sustainable Innovation and Regional Development. Rethinking Innovative Milieus. ECONOMIC ISSUES, 22, 121–122.
  • Andreoni, A. (2018). The architecture and dynamics of industrial ecosystems: Diversification and innovative industrial renewal in Emilia Romagna. CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 42(6), 1613–1642. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bey037
  • Andreoni, A. (2019). A Generalized Linkage Approach to Local Production Systems Development in the Era of Global Value Chains, with Special Reference to Africa (R. Kanbur, A. Noman, & J. Stiglitz, Eds; WOS:000973128200010; p. 294). https://doi.org/10.7312/kanb19476
  • Andreoni, A. (2022). Compressed Development and the Political Economy of Developmentalism. DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, 53(5), 1103–1120. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12729
  • Andreoni, A., & Anzolin, G. (2025). GVCs meet robots: Smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain. INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT. https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930X.2025.2468060
  • Andreoni, A., & Chang, H. (2017). Bringing production and employment back into development: Alice Amsden’s legacy for a new developmentalist agenda. CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF REGIONS ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, 10(1), 173–187. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsw029
  • Andreoni, A., & Chang, H. (2019a). Reindustrialising the UK (S. Konzelmann, S. Himmelweit, J. Smith, & J. Weeks, Eds; WOS:000490294100017; p. 69). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvpbnq1p
  • Andreoni, A., & Chang, H. (2019b). The political economy of industrial policy: Structural interdependencies, policy alignment and conflict management. STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS, 48, 136–150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2018.10.007
  • Andreoni, A., Chang, H., & Estevez, I. (2019). New Global Rules, Policy Space, and Quality of Growth in Africa (R. Kanbur, A. Noman, & J. Stiglitz, Eds; WOS:000973128200005; p. 145). https://doi.org/10.7312/kanb19476
  • Andreoni, A., Chang, H., & Estevez, I. (2021). The Missing Dimensions of the Human Capabilities Approach: Collective and Productive. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH, 33(2), 179–205. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00356-y
  • Andreoni, A., Chang, H., Konzelmann, S., & Shipman, A. (2018). Introducton to the Special Issue: Towards a production-centred agenda. CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 42(6), 1495–1504. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bey042
  • Andreoni, A., Chang, H., & Labrunie, M. (2021). Natura Non Facit Saltus: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Industrialisation Across Developing Countries. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH, 33(2), 330–370. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00355-z
  • Andreoni, A., Chang, H., & Scazzieri, R. (2019). Industrial policy in context: Building blocks for an integrated and comparative political economy agenda. STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS, 48, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2018.11.003
  • Andreoni, A., Creamer, K., Mazzucato, M., & Steyn, G. (2022). How can South Africa advance a new energy paradigm? A mission-oriented approach to megaprojects. OXFORD REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICY, 38(2), 237–259. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grac007
  • Andreoni, A., Frattini, F., & Prodi, G. (2017). Structural cycles and industrial policy alignment: The private-public nexus in the Emilian Packaging Valley. CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 41(3), 881–904. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bew048
  • Andreoni, A., Frattini, F., & Prodi, G. (2024). Getting robots in ‘our own hands’: Structural drivers, spatial dynamics and multi-scalar industrial policy in China. COMPETITION & CHANGE. https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294241261878
  • Andreoni, A., & Roberts, S. (2022). Governing digital platform power for industrial development: Towards an entrepreneurial-regulatory state. CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 46(6), 1431–1454. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/beac055
  • Andreoni, A., & Scazzieri, R. (2014). Triggers of change: Structural trajectories and production dynamics. CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 38(6), 1391–1408. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bet034
  • Andreoni, A., & Tregenna, F. (2020). Escaping the middle-income technology trap: A comparative analysis of industrial policies in China, Brazil and South Africa. STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS, 54, 324–340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2020.05.008
  • Andreoni, A., van Huellen, S., Katera, L., & Jahari, C. (2024). How to overcome rent seeking in Tanzania’s skills sector? Exploring feasible reforms through discrete choice experiments. WORLD DEVELOPMENT, 182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106705
  • Anzolin, G., & Andreoni, A. (2023). Robotising, but how? Evidence from the automotive sector in South Africa. JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT, 34(5), 820–837. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMTM-06-2022-0242
  • Anzolin, G., Andreoni, A., & Zanfei, A. (2022). What is driving robotisation in the automotive value chain? Empirical evidence on the role of FDIs and domestic capabilities in technology adoption. TECHNOVATION, 115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102476
  • Binyaruka, P., Andreoni, A., Balanova, D., Mckee, M., Hutchinson, E., & Angell, B. (2023). Re-aligning Incentives to Address Informal Payments in Tanzania Public Health Facilities: A Discrete Choice Experiment. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2022.6877
  • Binyaruka, P., Angell, B., McKee, M., Andreoni, A., Mamdani, M., Hutchinson, E., & Balabanova, D. (2023). How can we elicit health workers’ preferences for measures to reduce informal payments? A mixed methods approach to developing a discrete choice experiment in Tanzania. BMJ OPEN, 13(7). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068781
  • Binyaruka, P., Balabanova, D., McKee, M., Hutchinson, E., Andreoni, A., Ramesh, M., Angell, B., Kapologwe, N., & Mamdani, M. (2021). Supply-side factors influencing informal payment for healthcare services in Tanzania. HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING, 36(7), 1036–1044. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab034
  • Boys, J., & Andreoni, A. (2023a). Does regionalism increase industrial policy space? An analytical framework applied to the East African textiles and apparel sector. THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY, 44(8), 1680–1698. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2023.2211009
  • Boys, J., & Andreoni, A. (2023b). Upgrading through global, regional or national value chains? Firm-level evidence from the East African textiles & apparel sector. GEOFORUM, 144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103809
  • Chang, H., & Andreoni, A. (2020). Industrial Policy in the 21st Century. DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, 51(2), 324–351. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12570
  • Chang, H., & Andreoni, A. (2021). Bringing Production Back into Development: An introduction. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH, 33(2), 165–178. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-021-00359-3
  • Nerini, F., Andreoni, A., Bauner, D., & Howells, M. (2016). Powering production. The case of the sisal fibre production in the Tanga region, Tanzania. ENERGY POLICY, 98, 544–556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2016.09.029
  • O’Sullivan, E., Andreoni, A., López-Gómez, C., & Gregory, M. (2013). What is new in the new industrial policy? A manufacturing systems perspective. OXFORD REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICY, 29(2), 432–462. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grt027
  • Torreggiani, S., & Andreoni, A. (2023). Rising to the challenge or perish? Chinese import penetration and its impact on growth dynamics of manufacturing firms in South Africa. STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS, 64, 199–212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2022.12.010