Maurizio Ferrera is ISPI Scientific Advisor for the Europe and Global Governance Centre. He is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Milan. He was Visiting Professor in several foreign universities, including the London School of Economics, UC-Berkeley, McGill, the Juan March Institute in Madrid and the EUI. He took part over the years to many Commissions and Working Groups set up by the Italian Government, the European Union, OECD and ILO. He currently serves as President of the Network for the Advancement of Social Sciences (NASP) and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Centro di Ricerca e Documentazione Luigi Einaudi of Turin. Since 2004 he has been a regular editorialist of the Corriere della Sera. In 2003 he received an Advanced Grant by the ERC, to carry out a five year project on “Reconciling Economic and Social Europe” - REScEU