Professor Roberto D’Alimonte

Roberto D'Alimonte is a professor of political science at Luiss-Guido Carli in Rome where he has also served as chair of the Political Science Department. 

Before joining the faculty at Luiss he taught for over 30 years, until 2010, at the University of Florence. 

Professor D'Alimonte, a Ford Foundation Fellow at Yale University and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow at Harvard, has been visiting Professor in the Political Science Department at Yale and at Stanford. 

His relationship with Stanford is long and extremely fruitful. 

In the course of the decades, he taught at Stanford in Florence as well as on the home campus. 

In the Fall of 1989, the year of the Loma Prieta earthquake, he gave his first course in the political science department at Stanford and liked the experience so much that he continued to teach there as a Visiting Professor for a number of years to come. 

At Stanford, he has also given courses on Europe in the MBA Program at the Graduate School of Business, and for several years has been a guest speaker for the Stanford Business School's Executive Program. 

A specialist of Italian politics, D’Alimonte’s most recent research has been focusing on the political and electoral transitions in Western democracies, with special attention to the Italian case. 

In 2005, he founded the Italian Center for Electoral Studies and served as its director until March 2019. 

Also well-known as a journalist, Professor D'Alimonte covers political events for Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy's most important financial newspaper.  He is often sought out by international media for commentary on current Italian and European affairs. His quotes have appeared in the New York Times, The Financial Times, The Times, The New Yorker, Le Monde, Asahi Shimbun, Bloomberg, and Reuters. D'Alimonte has also collaborated with former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on the Italian electoral reform.