B.A., John Cabot University, 2016
Master's, University of Trento, 2018
Ph.D. Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, 2023
Davide Orsitto, who started teaching at JCU in 2025, is from Frascati, Italy. In 2016, he completed his Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs with a minor in Economics and Finance at John Cabot University in Rome. In 2018, he obtained his master’s degree in International Security Studies at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, and the University of Trento, Trento. He studied abroad at Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and interned at the Italian Mission to the OECD, Paris. As a graduate, he worked in 2018/2019 for Baker Hues, a GE Company in Florence, as a data analyst in the economics and marketing department. He obtained his Ph.D. cum laude in Human Rights and Global Politics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in 2023 with a thesis on the construction of political and economic indicators to discuss changes in welfare state systems and the future of the Social Europe. He is a government official who worked for more than three and a half years at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers for the Italian Recovery Plan and for the Council of Ministers. He is now serving as a trade policy official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. Among Professor Orsitto's recent publications: Varieties of Equality in European Welfare States (Edward Elgar, 2024) and "Varieties of Ideology. Reassessing Europe’s Open Society and Its Enemies in the Euro Area" (London School of Economics and Political Science, European Institute, London)
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