Alessandra Casella  Alessandra Casella is an economist, researcher, professor, and author. Currently, she is an Economic and Political Science professor at Columbia University. Casella received her Bachelor's degree with a summa cum laude in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, Milan, in March 1983. She furthered her studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she received her Masters and Ph.D. in Economics, 1988. Her thesis' focused on hyperinflation and the real exchange rates and supply shocks in the economy. After graduating, Casella's research continues to focus on Economics, with more specific interests in public economics, experimental economics, and political economy. In 2019, Casella was the director of the Columbia Laboratory for the Social Sciences, and a fellow in both the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge and the British Center for Economic Policy Research. She is the author of two books: "Networks and Markets. Contributions from Economics and Sociology" and "Storable Votes: Protecting the Minority Voice." Alessandra Casella started her teaching career at UC Berkeley as an assistant professor from 1987 to 1993. From 1996 to 2010, she was the part-time Director of Studies at Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Sciences Sociales (EHESS) based in Paris, France. In the time between her career in UC Berkeley and Director in EHESS, Casella became an associate Professor of Economics at Columbia University, New York, from 1993 till 1997. Her career with Columbia University continued where she eventually became a Professor of Economics at Columbia University in 1997 until current. Since then, Casella has taught Ph.D. courses in "Experimental Methods in Political Economy" and "Special Topics in Political Economics". She has also taught undergraduate classes in Political Economy and Experimental Economics. Since 2017, Casella has also become a Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Alessandra Casella has received several research grants throughout her career. Casella received her first grant with her colleague James Rauch for research on "Anonymous Market and Coethnic Ties in International Trade." The National Science Foundation gave the grant from 1997 - 2001 (Grant No. SBR-9709237). From 2002 - 2005, the National Science Foundation gave her another grant for research in "Storable Votes" (Grant No. SES-0214013). From 2006 - 2012, Casella continued to work with the National Science Foundation and received a supplementary grant to continue research on "Storable Votes, Part II" (Grant No. SES-0617934).