Italian political scientist. Dean of the Department of Political Science and Professor of Political science and International relations at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome, where he holds the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair on European Governance. He has also the Pierre Keller Visiting Professorship Chair at the Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government (2019/2020). He is the co-founder and former Director of the LUISS School of Government He is also recurrent professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.He contributed to build and then served as Director of the School of International Studies at University of Trento in the period 2006-2009. He was the Editor of the Italian Journal of Political Science (Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica) in the period 2004-2009. He is also an editorialist for the Italian newspaper "Il Sole 24 ore". For his editorials, he was awarded the “Altiero Spinelli Prize 2017”.