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Elena Fagotto

Elena Fagotto is the Transparency Policy Project’s Senior Research Associate at the Kennedy School of Government. Her research focuses on information disclosure, civic engagement and public deliberation. She has conducted several detailed case studies of transparency policies, including banks disclosure of lending patterns to curb discrimination, school report cards disclosure, medical error reporting, and required disclosure to employees of health and safety risks in the workplace. She is co-author of various articles on targeted transparency, including “Improving Workplace Hazard Communication,” Issues in Science and Technology and “The Effectiveness of Regulatory Disclosure Policies,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. She has also written extensively on several models of public deliberation and on their impact in promoting public policy reform and citizen engagement. Prior to joining the Kennedy School, Fagotto worked as a consultant in the emerging markets and is a partner of Enterprise Consulting, a firm advising institutional clients in the financial, economic and social fields. She is the president of the board of directors of the Community Art Center, a Cambridge non-profit empowering underprivileged youth through the arts, and a volunteer mentor with the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government and a Masters Degree in Political Science from LUISS University in Rome, Italy.