Enrico Giovannini, Professor, Rome University, Former Minister of Labour and Social Policies and Director of the Italian Statistical Institute, Italy

Enrico Giovannini is an Italian economist and statistician, member of the Club of Rome. Since 2002 he is full professor of economic statistics at the Rome University “Tor Vergata” and Senior Fellow of the LUISS School of European Political Economy. From 28th April 2013 to 22 February 2014 he was Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Italian Government. From August 2009 to April 2013 he was President of the Italian Statistical Institute (Istat).

From January 2001 to July 2009 he was Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where he designed and implemented a thorough reform of the statistical system, organised the "World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Politics" and launched the Global Project on the "Measurement of Progress in Society", which fostered the setting up of numerous worldwide initiatives on the issue "Beyond GDP".

He was member of the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Committee, established by the French President N. Sarkozy. He was also President of the Global Council of the World Economic Forum on the "Evaluation of Societal Progress", President of the Conference of European Statisticians, body of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, and Chairman of the Board of the World Bank International Project for the measurement of purchasing power parity.

He is currently member or chair of important national and international committees.

For his work on the measurement of social welfare, in 2010, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the President of the Italian Republic by the Pio Manzù International Centre and became a member of the Club of Rome.

He is author of more than ninety articles and four books on economic and statistical topics.