Leonardo Becchetti

He is a professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, director of the MESCI Master’s programme in Development and International Cooperation, and a columnist for *Avvenire*, *Sole 24 Ore* and *Corriere della Sera*’s ‘Buone Notizie’ section.

He obtained a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the Universities of Oxford and La Sapienza in Rome. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of Economists from 2011 to 2013, Chair of the Ethics Committee of Banca Etica from 2005 to 2014, and currently serves on the Ethics Committee of Etica SGR. He is co-founder and Chair of the Scientific Committee of Next – Nuova Economia per Tutti.

He has served as economic adviser to the Minister for the Environment and is a member of the Ministry of Labour’s Commission on Poverty and an adviser to the Ministry of Finance on green bonds.

He is ranked 64th in the REPEC world ranking of approximately 73,000 economists by number of pages published in scientific journals (May 2026).