Diego Restuccia is a Professor of Economics and a Canada Research Chair in Macroeconomics and Productivity at the University of Toronto. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge MA (USA). He received the Bank of Canada Fellowship Award in 2019 and 2024. Professor Restuccia's research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, development, and labor economics. His recent work focuses on the role of resource allocation of economic factors such as capital and labor across firms or sectors in accounting for macroeconomic outcomes. His work has appeared in leading economic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, and the Review of Economic Studies. Professor Restuccia received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota and an undergraduate degree from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Caracas (Venezuela). Professor Restuccia was born in Montevideo (Uruguay).