Dr. Giovanni Aiello is a Research Director at the TerraCotta Lab, TerraCotta’s research arm. In this role, Dr. Aiello will use quantitative methods to support TerraCotta’s proprietary investment processes.

Prior to joining TerraCotta, Dr. Aiello was an Economist at Amazon, where he led the causal impact evaluation of Interactive Video Ads. Earlier, he worked at the European Central Bank, where he built a forecasting framework to assess the impact of structural reforms. He also served as a Data Scientist at Rice University’s Data to Knowledge (D2K) Lab and as a Quantitative Researcher at Università Bocconi.

Dr. Aiello earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Rice University, where his research focused on structural econometrics and finance. He also holds a Master’s degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor’s degree in Economic and Social Sciences with a concentration in Statistics from Università Bocconi.