Mario Deaglio is Senior Scientific Advisor at ISPI. He is one of the major Italian experts in economics. Deaglio is also a scholar of financial journalism in addition to this his career of Professor of International Economics at the University of Turin.

His scientific research mainly focuses on modern Western economies, with a specialisation in subject matters such as income distribution, "hidden" economies, savings and the so-called "economic long cycles". He is currently concentrating on issues related to globalisation.