Maurizio Ferrera

Non-resident Fellow
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Maurizio Ferrera

Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milano, as well as founder and President of NASP (Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Sciences), a consortium for doctoral training  schools.  He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the European University Institute, where he  later returned as  Visiting Schuman  Professor and as Director of the European Forum.   He  currently sits in the Scientific Committee  of the Centre d’Etudes Europeennes at Sciences Po, in the Committee of the Skytte Prize in Political Science (Upssala University) and  is a corresponding member of the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere. In 2021 the International Political Science Association  awarded to Maurizio Ferrera the  “Mattei Dogan” prize for High Achievement in Political Science. 

Ferrera has mainly worked on welfare states  and European integration.  His latest book is Politics and Social Visions. Ideology, Conflict and Solidarity in the EU. Since 2004 he has been a columnist  of Il Corriere della Sera.