Trained as Statistician and Economist, in the past 10 years dedicated his efforts at WFP towards food security related economic analysis and automation of related processes. PhD candidate at UNU-MERIT in Maastricht, his research is focused on food security, and the effects of market dynamics on inequality. Open Source and Open Data enthusiast, is also product manager for digital solutions designed to serve country operations and the public.

	Selected publications by Valerio Giuffrida
Articles (journal, professional, popular)
Giuffrida, Valerio, Stephan Dietrich, Bruno Martorano & Georg Schmerzeck, 2021, COVID?19 policy responses, mobility, and food prices, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, More information
UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Dietrich, Stephan, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck & Marco Tiberti, 2023, Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2023-035
Dietrich, Stephan, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano & Georg Schmerzeck, 2021, COVID-19 policy responses, mobility, and food prices: Evidence from local markets in 47 low to middle income countries, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2021-008