Giovanni Facchini is a Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham and at the University of Milan, having taught previously at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the University of Essex, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Stanford. His research focuses on international trade and factor mobility. He has published in journals such as the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics, among others.

Giovanni is a CEPR Research Fellow, a fellow of CES-Ifo and IZA, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. He coordinates research on international migration at the Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano in Milan. He obtained a PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 2001.