Luca Currado joined Lear as a Research Assistant in 2026. He earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Mannheim in 2026, with a dissertation in applied public economics focusing on municipal finance and fiscal rules. During his doctoral studies, he worked at the University of Mannheim as a Teaching Assistant for courses in Business Economics and Applied Econometrics and as a Research Assistant on a project in applied industrial organisation. He holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Turin, an MA in Economics from Collegio Carlo Alberto, and a BSc in Economics and Statistics from the University of Turin.