Course offered: Foresight, industrial strategy, and digital policies: a new 'consistent trio' in the EU (30h)
Dimitri Lorenzani is a Professor in the European Political and Governance Studies Department since September 2023 and has 15 years of professional experience at the European Commission, where he currently heads the R&D Strategy and Programme Coordination Unit in the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT). Previously, between January 2024 and January 2026, he was member of the Competitiveness Task Force, where he first cooperated with Professor Mario Draghi, former ECB President and special advisor to the Commission President, on the drafting of the Draghi Report and then worked on the implementation of the Report’s recommendations. Between 2021 and 2024, he was Cabinet member of Maroš Šefčovič, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Inter-institutional relations and Foresight, responsible for strategic foresight and industrial policy. Between 2020 and 2021, he was Team Leader for strategic foresight at the General Secretariat. Between 2011 and 2020, he worked at the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), where he led the team of economists dealing with Italy’s macroeconomic and fiscal surveillance under the Stability and Growth Pact. He holds postgraduate (Master) degrees in economics and finance (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa) and in EU affairs (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
Publications:
▪ Strategic foresight as a beacon for the EU’s new industrial policy (Lorenzani D., European Law Journal, Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2024, Pages 422-433): https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12521
▪ A “Geopolitical Commission”: Reaching a Point of Inflexion? (Lorenzani D. and M. Szapiro), in O. Costa and S. Van Hecke (eds.), The EU Political System After the 2019 European Elections, Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12338-2_10
▪ Financial Spillover and Contagion Risks in the euro area in 2007-2019 (Garcia R., Lorenzani D., Vasicek B., and L. Vogel), European Economy Discussion Paper 137, January 2021 (link)
▪ The Effectiveness of Preventive Insolvency Frameworks in the EU (Carpus M., Ciriaci D., Cuerpo C., Lorenzani D., and P. Pontuch), in “The Routledge Companion to Turnaround Management and Bankruptcy”, Routledge eds. March 2017, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315738116
▪ Italy’s Spending Maze Runner: an analysis of the structure and evolution of public expenditure in Italy (Lorenzani D. and E. Reitano), European Economy Discussion Paper 23, December 2015 (link)
▪ The Economic Impact of Civil Justice Reforms (Lorenzani D. and F. Lucidi) European Economy, Economic Paper 530, September 2014 (link)
▪ The Economic Impact of Digital Structural Reforms (Lorenzani D. and J. Varga), European Economy Economic Paper 529, 2014 (link)
▪ Market Functioning in Network Industries: Electronic Communications, Energy and Transport (Maincent E., Lorenzani D., and A. Eordogh), European Economy Occasional Paper 129, December 2014 (link)
▪ The Economic Impact of the Services Directive: a first assessment following implementation (Monteagudo J., Rutkowski A., and D. Lorenzani), European Economy Economic Paper 456, June 2012 (link)