Stefano Sacchi is an Associate Professor of Political Science at LUISS University in Rome (on leave from the University of Milan) and since 2016 the President of the Italian National Institute for Public Policy Analysis, INAPP, in Rome. In the Renzi government (2014-2016) he was a special adviser to the Italian Labor Minister and then to the Prime Minister's office. In that capacity he designed and drafted several social policy reforms, including the new unemployment benefit system and the rnirtimum income scheme. He has authored or coauthored more than fifty academic publications in the field of comparative political economy and comparative social and labor policy. He was visiting scholar or lectured in several universities worldwide, including Cornell, Princeton, Toronto, NYU, University of Washington, University of Amsterdam, University of Southern Denmark, Tokyo University and Waseda.