Silvia Vignetti started at CSIL in 1999 as a research fellow. She became a member of the Board of Directors in 2007. She has several years of experience in conducting and coordinating research projects in the field of regional development policies, and research and innovation policies. She supports public decision-making in designing and evaluating policies, programmes, and projects and specialises in carrying out socio-economic impact assessment and feasibility studies. She gained extensive experience with EU policies by contributing to studies and technical assistance projects for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Investment Bank, national governments, and international organisations.

A specific area of expertise of Silvia is the evaluation of the impacts of research infrastructures. She has recently coordinated the Evaluation of research infrastructures and activities supported by the European Regional Development Fund in the period 2007-2013. Since 2014, she has contributed to developing, testing and finetuning a methodological framework to assess the socio-economic costs and benefits of big science projects and large-scale research infrastructures, for both public authorities and infrastructure managers. She is currently working with CERN on the estimation of the socio-economic impacts of a new future particles accelerator at CERN. Also, as team member of the Open Science Impact Pathway (PathOS) research project, she is coordinating the research aimed at assessing the costs and benefits of selected open science practices.

Silvia graduated in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan.

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