Marco Simoni (born 13 September 1974, Rome, Italy) is an Italian academic and public manager.
He is currently an adjunct professor at
Luiss Business School in Rome
and he is the first President of the Human Technopole Foundation, the new Italian research institute for life sciences.
Biography
He is married and has two children, both born in London.
He has a degree in Political Science from the
Sapienza University of Rome
The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a Public university, public research university l ...
and a PhD in Political Economy from
, which received the Juan J. Linz prize for best PhD thesis in Political Science in an EU member state. His thesis, dated 2007, was titled The renegotiated alliance between left and organised labour in western Europe.
He carried out research activity at the
International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and o ...
in Geneva and in 2008 he received the Postdoctoral Fellowship from the British Academy for young researchers.
From 2007 to 2016, he taught and carried out research in comparative political economy at the London School of Economics, first as a post-doctoral fellow and later as an Assistant and then Associate Professor in Political Economy. He taught courses in European political economy, concepts in political and policy making in Europe.
Government positions
He moved to Italy from London in 2013 to take up the role of Chief Secretary for Deputy Minister for Economic Development
Carlo Calenda
Carlo Calenda (born 9 April 1973) is an Italian business executive and politician. On 10 May 2016, he was appointed Minister of Economic Development in the government of Matteo Renzi and continued in that role in the government of Renzi's success ...
, dealing with dossiers related to commercial policies, attraction of investment and policies for the internationalisation of Italy.
From 2014 to 2018, he was the International Economic Relations and Industrial Policy Councillor for Prime Ministers
Matteo Renzi
Matteo Renzi (; born 11 January 1975) is an Italian politician who served as prime minister of Italy from 2014 to 2016. He has been a senator for Florence since 2018. Renzi has served as the leader of Italia Viva (IV) since 2019, having been ...
and
Paolo Gentiloni
Paolo Gentiloni Silveri (; born 22 November 1954) is an Italian politician who has served as European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission since 1 December 2019. He previously served as prime minister of Italy from December ...
.
In this role he managed national and international relations, political and legal dossiers, coordinated ministries and public agencies, and contributed to the economic agenda of the Prime Minister.
Between 2016 and 2018 he was a member of the Arexpo Board of Directors and of the Coordination Committee for the Human Technopole Project, to follow the redevelopment of the ex-EXPO area in Milan.
Human Technopole
On 16 May 2018 he was appointed by the Prime Minister as the first President of the Human Technopole Foundation, the new Italian research institute for life sciences set in Palazzo Italia. This is within the former
EXPO 2015
Expo 2015 was a World Expo hosted by Milan, Italy. It opened on May 1 at 10:00 CEST and closed on October 31. Milan hosted an exposition for the second time; the first was the 1906 Milan International.
The Bureau International des Expositi ...
site, now rebranded as MIND – Milano Innovation District.
Publications
He is the author of numerous academic publications
on issues of comparative capitalism and he wrote “''Senza alibi: perché il capitalismo italiano non cresce più''”, a book on the decline of the Italian economy, which was published by Marsilio in 2012.
Since 2010, he has been the author of an online blog on
Il Post
''Il Post'' is an Italian on-line daily newspaper, founded and directed in 2010 by Luca Sofri. The editorial staff includes journalists Arianna Cavallo, Francesco Costa, Luca Misculin, Elena Zacchetti, Giulia Balducci and Emanuele Menietti, as w ...
where he comments news on political economy and current affairs.
He has also collaborated with various other Italian dailies including Il Messaggero, Europa Quotidiano, l’Unità, il Sole 24 Ore, la Stampa and others.
References
Attribution
*This article is based on a translation of the Italian Wikipedia article
Marco Simoni
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Academic staff of the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
1974 births
Living people
Academics of the London School of Economics