Giacomo Benedetto FRSA | |
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Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
Occupation | Jean Monnet Chair |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts |
Academic background | |
Education | |
Thesis | Institutionalised Consensus in Europe's Parliament (2005) |
Doctoral advisor | Simon Hix |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political science,Public policy,European studies |
Sub-discipline | EU budget |
Institutions | Royal Holloway,University of London University of Manchester |
Website | pure |
Giacomo Benedetto FRSA [2] (born August 1972 [3] ) is a British Italian political scientist and holder of a Jean Monnet Chair at Royal Holloway,University of London. [4] He is an expert in European Union politics,and has researched and published extensively on the European Parliament,Euroscepticism,and the EU budget. [5]
Benedetto completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Sussex and his graduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science,from which he earned an MSc(Econ) and a PhD. [4] His doctoral thesis (2005),under the supervision of Simon Hix,dealt with Institutionalised Consensus in Europe's Parliament. [6] Benedetto started his academic career as a lecturer at the University of Manchester in 2005. [7] He joined Royal Holloway,University of London,in 2006, [8] and was appointed Jean Monnet Chair in 2016,with an inaugural lecture entitled £350 million per week and why Europe needs a budget. [9]
As an expert in EU budgetary politics,Benedetto is co-author of the Study on the Potential and Limitations of Reforming the Financing of the EU Budget prepared for the EU's High Level Group on Own Resources,the so-called Monti Group. [10] [11] As a Jean Monnet Chair,he was also invited to provide oral evidence on Brexit and the EU budget by the House of Lords EU financial affairs sub-committee of the select committee on the European Union, [12] and to provide written evidence for the European Parliament Committee on Budgets on the EU budget during the previous decade. [13] For the election of new parliamentarians in 2019,the European Parliament commissioned Benedetto to author a History of the EU Budget,which was published in 23 languages. [14]
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