As the Coronavirus spreads, can the EU afford to close its borders?
Raffaella Meninno and Guntram WolffAbout the authors
Raffaella works at Bruegel as a Research Assistant Intern. Raffaella is a third-year
student in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University in Milan, where she is
expected to graduate in 2020. Her studies are mainly focused on quantitative methods
and their application in economic research. She previously worked as Research
Assistant at the Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public
Policy (Dondena), working on a project that aimed at explaining the gender gap in the
electorate of far-right and populist parties. Raffaella has been Member of the Board as
HR Officer at the Italian Section of the European Youth Parliament (EYP). Raffaella
has also worked as a trainer of the Understanding Europe program of the Schwarzkopf-
Stiftung Foundation.
Guntram Wolff is the Director of Bruegel. He regularly testifies at the European Finance
Ministers’ informal ECOFIN meeting, the European Parliament, the German Parliament
(Bundestag) and the French Parliament (Assemblée Nationale). From 2012-16, he was
a member of the French prime minister’s Conseil d’Analyse Economique. He joined
Bruegel from the European Commission, where he worked on the macroeconomics of
the euro area and the reform of euro area governance. Prior to joining the Commission,
he was coordinating the research team on fiscal policy at Deutsche Bundesbank. He also
worked as an adviser to the International Monetary Fund. He holds a PhD in economics
from the University of Bonn and has published in leading academic and policy outlets.