Marianna Battaglia is Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics (FAE) at University of Alicante since 2022. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Bocconi University (Italy) in 2013 and joined the Department of Economics at University of Alicante the same year. She got her M.A. in Development Economics from the University of Sussex (UK) in 2006. During her studies and current investigation she visited Sciences-Po (France), University of Namur (Belgium) and University of  Louvain-le-Neuve (Belgium).

She has worked as consultant for Triple Line Consulting, c/o LSE Consortium Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and as research fellow for Nomisma S.p.A. (Italy). She has also worked as junior economist (internship) at IOM (International Organization for Migration), Mission Chile (Chile).