Giacomo Benedetto FRSA | |
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Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
Occupation | Jean Monnet Chair |
Board member of | Associate Editor of the European Journal of Government and Economics |
Relatives | Geoffrey Grigson (grandfather) |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Sussex (BA) London School of Economics (MSc, PhD) |
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 is also associate editor of the peer-reviewed European Journal of Government and Economics,[6] and co-ordinator of the EUROSCI Network Centre in the UK.[7]
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.[8] Benedetto started his academic career as a lecturer at the University of Manchester in 2005.[9] He joined Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2006,[10] and was appointed Jean Monnet Chair in 2016, with an inaugural lecture entitled £350 million per week and why Europe needs a budget.[11] Benedetto is a grandson of Geoffrey Grigson, the British poet, editor and critic.[12][13]
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.[14][15] 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,[16] and to provide written evidence for the European Parliament Committee on Budgets on the EU budget during the previous decade.[17] 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.[18]