Enrico Giovannini

Biography

Enrico Giovannini is an Italian economist and statistician, member of the Club of Rome. Since 2002 he is full professor at the Rome University “Tor Vergata”. He was Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Letta Government (2013-2014), President of the Italian Statistical Institute (2009-2013), Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the OECD (2001-2009).

He is Senior Fellow of the LUISS School of European Political Economy, Visiting Fellow at the EPSC, Vice-president of the High Level Group on Competitiveness and Growth of the European Council, Co-Chair of the “Independent Experts Advisory Board on Data Revolution for Sustainable Development” established by the UN Secretary-General, member of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board responsible for supervising the functioning of the European Statistical System and of boards of several Italian and international institutions.

He is Director of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development.

In October 2014, the President of the Italian Republic made him “Cavaliere di Gran Croce al Merito della Repubblica”, the highest ranking honour of the Italian Republic.

He is author of more than ninety articles and four books on economic and statistical topics.

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Full professor of Economic Statistics, Department of Economics and Finance (DEF), University of Rome and co-chair of the UN Secretary-General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development

Resources

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/sep/02/say-goodbye-to-capitalism-welcome-to-the-republic-of-wellbeing |

“Le statistiche economiche” (seconda edizione) – Il Mulino – 2015 |

“A World That Counts. Mobilizing the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development” |

“Scegliere il futuro. Conoscenza e politica al tempo dei Big Data” – Il Mulino, 2014 |