Gianni De Fraja

Gianni De Fraja is an Italian academic who is professor of economics at the University of Nottingham and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). De Fraja was born in Bologna, where he spent the first five years of his life, before moving to Bassano del Grappa and then on to Mestre, near Venice, where he lived until he was eighteen. He attended SSSUP college in Pisa from which he graduated in 1982. He then moved to a house near the Chianti Hills, near Vagliagli, where he took his doctorate at Siena with a thesis on game theory. After a year in Siena, he was encouraged by his teachers to go abroad and so went to England in Linacre College, Oxford. After two years in Oxford, he returned to Italy for military service in the Italian Army. After a year, he returned to complete his thesis on oligopolistic competition.