Michela Vecchi

Michela Vecchi is Professor of Economics at Kingston University. Her main areas of research are skills, productivity, technical change and wellbeing. Currently, she is working on an analysis of green skills for the net-zero transition in London, on the skill mismatch among UK graduates, and on the relation between dance, wellbeing and productivity in the workplace.

Michela is member of the Royal Economic Society, and she is the programme deputy chair for the 2024 Royal Economic Society Conference. Before joining Kingston, Michela worked at Middlesex University, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), Stirling University and Glasgow University. Michela has also worked in cooperation with the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). She is visiting fellow at National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) and fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).