Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milano, as well as founder and President of NASP (Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Sciences), a consortium for doctoral training schools. He has been Visiting Professor at numerous foreign universities, member of various scientific committees, co-director of the Rivista di Scienza Politica and Biblioteca della Libertà. Since 2004 he has been a columnist for Corriere della Sera. He is a member of Academia Aeuropea, the Istituto Lombardo – Accademia di Scienze e Lettere and the jury committee of the Skytte Prize (Upssala University).
Ferrera has mainly worked on welfare states and European integration. In 1996, his article on “The Southern Model of Welfare in Social Europe (“Journal of European Social Policy”) started the still ongoing debate on the distinctive characteristics of the welfare state in Mediterranean countries. Among his books in English: The Boundaries of Welfare. The New Spatial Politics of Social Protection (Oxford University Press, 2005), Politics and Social Visions. Ideology, Conflict and Solidarity in the EU (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Social Reformism 2.0 (with J.Mirò and S.Ronchi, Edward Elgar, 2024).
Between 2014 and 2025, Maurizio Ferrera has conducted two ERC-funded research projects (REScEU: www.resceu.eu; and www.solid-erc.eu) In 2019 he was awarded by the International Political Science Association the “Mattei Dogan” prize for High Achievement in Political Science.

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