Elira
Karaja

Currently a faculty member for Coesia Corporate EMBA I, and previously the Executive Master in Sustainability Transition Management at Bologna Business School. An Economist by training and International Development Practitioner. Affiliate at the Center for Resilience Building, George Mason University, and Senior Economist and Sustainability Specialist with the United Nations System.  She has held positions as an  Economist at UNIDO, HQ in New York, the World Bank in Washington DC, and the Insitute for New Economic Thinking in New York. An Alumni of Columbia University and UC Berkeley. She has worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Professors Joseph Stiglitz at the Columbia Business School. She covers advisory roles for several organizations among others Google Start-Up for SDGS and has given lectureships at Columbia Unversity, UC Berkeley, Politecnico di Milano, Tor Vergata, University of Verona.