Stefania Lovo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Reading. Her research interests are in environmental policy, political economy, and trade. In particular, she has studied how deforestation interacts with ethnic diversity and institutional quality, how tenure insecurity, climate shocks and crop choices affect individual and household welfare and how environmental policies and decentralisation impact on firm location, international trade and firm performance.  She is also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Globalisation Research (Queen Mary), and a Senior Research Associate of the Trade Policy Hub (LSE). She is also a board member of the Italian Association of Development Economists (SITES).