Giacomo Benedetto

FRSA The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), also known as the Royal Society of Arts, is a London-based organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges. The RSA acronym is used m ...

(born August 1972) is a British Italian political scientist and holder of a

Jean Monnet Chair The Jean Monnet Programme, also known as the Jean Monnet Project or Jean Monnet Actions, is a European Union initiative to encourage teaching, research and reflection in the field of European integration studies in higher education institutions. I ...

Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It has six schools, 21 academic departm ...

. He is an expert in

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

politics, and has researched and published extensively on the

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...

Euroscepticism Euroscepticism, also spelled as Euroskepticism or EU-scepticism, is a political position involving criticism of the European Union (EU) and European integration. It ranges from those who oppose some EU institutions and policies, and seek reform ...

, and the

EU budget The Budget of the European Union (EU budget) is used to finance EU funding programmes (such as the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion Fund, Horizon Europe, or Erasmus+) and other expenditure at the European level. The EU budget ...

. Benedetto is also associate editor of the peer-reviewed ''European Journal of Government and Economics'', and co-ordinator of the

EUROSCI Network The EUROSCI Network is an international academic network that promotes university co-operation through educational technology. Following a series of seminars co-funded by Erasmus+ at the University of A Coruña in Spain starting in 2011, the network ...

Centre in the UK.

Early life and academic career

Benedetto completed his undergraduate studies at the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

and his graduate studies at the

London School of Economics and Political Science , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

, from which he earned an MSc(Econ) and a PhD. His doctoral thesis (2005), under the supervision of

Simon Hix Simon Hix is a British political scientist, holder of the Stein Rokkan chair in comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence. He was also Harold Laski Professor of Political Science and pro-director for research at the ...

, dealt with Institutionalised Consensus in Europe's Parliament. Benedetto started his academic career as a lecturer at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

in 2005. He joined

, in 2006, and was appointed

in 2016, with an inaugural lecture entitled ''£350 million per week and why Europe needs a budget''. Benedetto is a grandson of

Geoffrey Grigson Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. In the 1930s he was editor of the influential magazine ''New Verse'', and went on to p ...

, the British poet, editor and critic.

Achievements

As an expert in EU budgetary politics, Benedetto is co-author of the ''Study on the Potential and Limitations of Reforming the Financing of the

EU Budget The Budget of the European Union (EU budget) is used to finance EU funding programmes (such as the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion Fund, Horizon Europe, or Erasmus+) and other expenditure at the European level. The EU budget ...

'' prepared for the ''EU's High Level Group on Own Resources'', the so-called Monti Group. As a

, he was also invited to provide oral evidence on

Brexit Brexit (; a portmanteau of "British exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (00:00 1 February 2020 CET).The UK also left the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or ...

and the

by the

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EU financial affairs sub-committee of the

select committee Select committee may refer to: *Select committee (parliamentary system), a committee made up of a small number of parliamentary members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues *Select or special committee (United States Congress) *Select ...

on the

, and to provide written evidence for the

European Parliament Committee on Budgets The Committee on Budgets (BUDG) is a committee of the European Parliament. It has 41 members plus 39 substitute members. The committee's current chair is Jean Arthuis, who has held this position since 7 July 2014.Journal of Public Policy'' 33(3): 345–369. *Nuñez Ferrer, J., J. Le Cacheux, G. Benedetto, & M. Saunier (2016), ''Study on the Potential and Limitations of Reforming the Financing of the EU Budget: Expertise commissioned by the European Commission on behalf of the High Level Group on Own Resources''.

Centre for European Policy Studies The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) is a think tank based in Brussels, Belgium that undertakes research "leading to solutions to the challenges facing Europe today". It was established in 1983. Organisation CEPS is a leading think tan ...

. *Benedetto, G. (2017), "Institutions and the route to reform of the European Union's budget revenue", ''Empirica'' 44(4): 615–633. *Benedetto, G. (2017), "Power, money and reversion points: The European Union's annual budgets since 2010", ''

Journal of European Public Policy ''Journal of European Public Policy'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of public policy, European politics and the EU. The current joint editors-in-chief are Jeremy Richardson (University of Oxford) and Berthold Rittberger (U ...

'' 24(5): 633–652. *Benedetto, G. (2019), "The European Parliament as a budgetary extractor since the Lisbon Treaty", ''

Journal of European Integration The ''Journal of European Integration'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly work on all aspects of the European integration process. The journal welcomes submissions from a variety of disciplinary or multidisciplinary perspecti ...

'' 41(3): 329-345. *Benedetto, G. (2019), ''The History of the EU Budget'',

. *Benedetto, G, S. Hix, & N. Mastrorocco (2020), "The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy, 1918-2017", ''

American Political Science Review The ''American Political Science Review'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all areas of political science. It is an official journal of the American Political Science Association and is published on their behalf by Cambridg ...

'' 114(3): 928-939.

References

External links

Official website

EUROSCI Network Centre in the UK
{{DEFAULTSORT:Benedetto, Giacomo 1972 births Living people English people of Italian descent European Union and European integration scholars Alumni of the University of Sussex Alumni of the London School of Economics Academics of the University of Manchester Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London Male non-fiction writers