Claudio De Vincenti

Born in Rome in 1948, Claudio De Vincenti, Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Rome La Sapienza and Senior Fellow of the LUISS School of European Political Economy, also carried out academic and research activities at the Federico University II of Naples and the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. An expert in competition, market regulation and economic policy, as well as the author of numerous essays on economic theory and policy, he has held important institutional positions over the years: among others, he was Minister for Territorial Cohesion and the South, Undersecretary for the Presidency of the Council, Undersecretary and then Deputy Minister for Economic Development. During his four years at the Ministry of Economic Development, he has mainly dealt with industrial policy, making a particular contribution to the solution of various corporate crises, of competition and market structures, of energy policies.