Sergio Fabbrini
Sergio Fabbrini is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations and Intesa Sanpaolo Chair on European Governance at the Political Science Department of the Luiss Guido Carli in Rome. He founded and directed the University of Trento School of International Studies (2006-2009) and the Luiss School of government (2009-2018). He also directed the Luiss Political Science Department (2018-2024), bringing its area of “Politics and International Studies” to the world’s fourteen position according to the QS global universities ranking.
He held several editorial positions. He was the Director of the “Rivista italiana di scienza politica” (2004-2009), the first Editor after Giovanni Sartori who founded and directed the journal from 1971 to 2003. He had the Pierre Keller Chair at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2019-2020) and he was a Recurrent Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley. He was Jemolo Fellow at the Nuffield College, Oxford University and Jean Monnet Chair Professor at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence.
He lectured in several international universities and won several prizes. He published twenty-two books, two co-authored books and twenty edited or co-edited books or journals’ special issues, and several hundred scientific articles and essays in seven languages in the most important peer-reviewed international journals. His recent publications in English include: A Federalist Alternative for European Governance: The European Union in Hard Times (Cambridge University Press 2025) and Europe’s Future: Decoupling and Reforming, (Cambridge University Press, 2019). His recent publications in Italian include, Nazionalismo 2.0. La sfida sovranista all’Europa integrate (Mondadori 2025) and Tsunami Trump. Il nazionalismo americano e l’Europa (Edizioni Sole 24 Ore, 2026). He contributed to several commissions and working groups on the future of Europe. He is the Sunday editorialist of the financial daily “Il Sole 24 Ore”.
He is considered among the authoritative scholars on European and comparative politics and institutions.