Abstract
DR. ALICE VALDESALICI: Alice Valdesalici, PhD, is Research Group Leader and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism of Eurac Research. She has been visiting scholar at the Instituts d’Estudis Autonòmics in Barcelona and at the Deutsche Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung in Speyer. She earned her PhD in Italian and European Constitutional Law from the Graduate School of Law of the University of Verona in May 2016. For her research, she received the ‘Ronald Watts Young Researcher Award 2016’, by the IACFS-International Association of Centres for Federal Studies, and the ‘Award for Federal and Regional Studies 2016’, by the Austrian Landtagspräsidentenkonferenz and the Institute for Federalism in Innsbruck'. Her main research interests include comparative fiscal federalism, federal and regional studies, Italian and European constitutional law, institutional innovation. On these topics, she authored several papers in academic journals as well as edited books, and has provided consultancy, among others, to the Council of Europe and to regional and local governments in Italy. In an exclusive interview She answered our questions.