Associate Research Fellow at CEPS, Adjunct Professor at the University of Milan, and Research Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI). Expert in European social and employment policies, European economic governance EU budget and comparative welfare states, with a focus on social investment policies, Francesco provided research and advisory services to various Brussels-based think tanks and EU institutions. He served as policy advisor to a Member of European Parliament in the ECON Committee between 2016 and 2019 and regularly serves as an external expert to the European Court of Auditors and Eurofound.