Italian economist and statistician, member of the Club of Rome and of the World Academy of Arts and Science. 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, member of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board responsible for supervising the functioning of the European Statistical System,memberof the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (HLEG) established by the OECDand of boards of several Italian and international institutions.
He is the Director and founder of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS), a coalition of more than 140 civil society organisations (business associations, trade unions, non-profit and volunteering organisations, foundations, etc.) established in December 2015 to implement in Italy the UN Agenda 2030 for sustainable development.
Over the last few years, he was 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 Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Committee, established by the French President N. Sarkozy, President of the Global Council of the World Economic Forum on the "Evaluation of Societal Progress" and Chair of the Conference of European Statisticians (UN Economic Commission for Europe).
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.