Dr Dario Leoni
Research Fellow
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Dario is a research fellow in our System Dynamics research strand, assessing the sustainability of the pension and health care sectors in a post-growth transition in the UK and other European countries.
Dario is a Research Fellow in our System Dynamics research strand. After completing his PhD on the macroeconomic implications of a post-growth transition in the global North for the global South, he is now working on assessing the sustainability of the pension and health care sectors in a post-growth transition in the UK and other European countries.
Dario holds a first class BA in Economics and Management from the University of Trento, Italy, and a MSc in Economics from the University of Leeds, UK. He completed his PhD in Sustainability at CUSP (University of Surrey) in 2024. In his PhD project, he built Post-growth and Development Macroeconomic (PADME) model, a 2-region stock-flow consistent model to investigate how a post-growth transition in the global North could affect the economic development of the global South. Now, his post-doc work focuses on assessing the long-term financial sustainability of the pension system and the health care sector during a post-growth transition. In particular, he uses macroeconomic modelling to study the impact that an ageing population coupled with a non-growing economy will have on the public finances of the UK and other European countries.
His academic interests include ecological economics, economic modelling, post-Keynesian economics, monetary and international economics.