Dr Francesca Medda
The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) is one of the leading forces in the science of cities, generating new knowledge and insights for use in city planning, policy and design and drawing on the latest geospatial methods and ideas in computer-based visualisation and modelling. We are part of The Bartlett: UCL's global faculty of the built environment.
Profile
Biography
www.ucl.ac.uk/qaser
Director
UCL Quantitative and Applied Spatial Economic Reseach Laboratory (QASER)
Francesca Romana Medda is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Applied Economics at the University College London (UCL). From 2000 to 2005 she has taught mathematical economics and regional economics at the London School of Economics. From 2010 she is the Director of the UCL QASER (Quantitative and Applied Spatial Economics Research) Laboratory. Her research focuses on finance and incentive performance, efficiency evaluation and contractual agreements in economic infrastructure. Her work has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals. She has been an advisor to the World Bank, The European Investment Bank, Transport for London, VEOLIA and UITP. Since 2007 she has been a member of the Executive Board of Directors of one of the major public transport companies in Italy.
Research Summary
Infrastructure Investment
Financial Portfolio Optimization
Risk Analysis
Efficiency and Performance
Public and Private Partnerships
Project Appraisal
Research outputs
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
