Throughout her academic and professional experiences in the EU and the UK, Vittoria has been driven by a keen interest in housing affordability and the role of policy-making. She is currently a PhD student in Social Policy at the University of Oxford, researching housing policies in Latin America. Vittoria completed a bachelor’s degree at Bocconi University (Milan), spending one semester at Yale-NUS College (Singapore), and an MPhil in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Oxford. She has contributed to multiple research projects in both Italy and the UK. Vittoria is also an enthusiastic member of the University of Oxford Salsa Team and, over the years, has become an expert on the town’s dancing scene. She is fluent in Portuguese and a native speaker of Italian and Spanish. This will be her fifth summer with Oxford Academia.