Valeria Giacomin

Valeria Giacomin is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University.

Previously she held post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Business School and Marshall Business School (USC). She received her PhD from Copenhagen Business School with a thesis on the development of the palm oil cluster in Southeast Asia.

Her research focuses on global history of commodity markets in Southeast Asia; clusters in historical perspective; and business history of emerging markets since the 19th century. Recently Valeria started new projects on historical entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Copenhagen Business School (2013 — 2016)
• MA School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London (2011 — 2012)
• Master of Science (MS) Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' (Milano) - Fudan University (Shanghai) (2009 — 2011)
• Exam Fundação Getulio Vargas (2009 — 2009)
• Bachelor's degree Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi' (2006 — 2009)
• Exchange Semester Singapore Management University (2008 — 2008)
• Maturità Classica Liceo Classico 'A.Canova' - Treviso (2001 — 2006)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Università Bocconi (2020)
• Founder Fellow Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies - USC Marshall (2019)
• Co-founding Member & Advisory Councilor Singapore Economic Forum (2019 — 2020)
• Assistant Professor Copenhagen Business School (2018 — 2019)
• Harvard Newcomen Fellow 2017/2018 Harvard Business School (2017 — 2018)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Copenhagen Business School (2016 — 2017)
• PhD Fellow Copenhagen Business School (2013 — 2016)
• Business Intelligence Analyst rubybox (2012 — 2013)
• Analyst TRUGroup.Inc (2010 — 2011)

Skills

• E-commerce
• Marketing Strategy
• Social Media

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Peer reviewed articles

• Giacomin,V., Jones, G., and Salvaj E. (2020), Business Leaders and Investment in Education: Evidence from Emerging Markets since the 1960s, Business History, forthcoming.
• Giacomin, V., (2018). The transformation of the global palm oil cluster: dynamics of cluster competition between Africa and Southeast Asia (c. 1900-1970), Journal of Global History, 13(3): 374-398.
• Giacomin, V., (2018). The emergence of an export cluster: Traders and palm oil in early 20th century Southeast Asia, Enterprise and Society,19(2): 272-308.

Chapters in edited volumes

• Giacomin, V., (2019). Clusters as spaces for global integration. In (eds.) da Silva Lopes T., Lubinski C., & Tworek, H., The RoutledgeCompanion to the Makers of Global Business, 264-278, Routledge.
• Giacomin, V., (2019). Singapore: Global City ante litteram in early 20th century Southeast Asia. In (eds.) Webster,T., & White, N.J., Singapore - Two Hundred Years of the Lion City, 61-79, Routledge.