Dr Fabrizio de Francesco

Fabrizio is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde. Since 2012, he has been teaching policy analysis and theories and practices of regulatory governance. By applying quantitative and qualitative methods, Fabrizio has a strong research interest in assessing how institutional design and settings impact public administration and regulatory governance. He also focuses on how international organisations as knowledge institutions are able to frame and promote policy innovations and administrative reform. His research on regulatory issues (such as digital miscommunication) and institutions, the diffusion of administrative reforms, and transnational and sustainable development goals governance has been published in three books and several journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Governance, Policy Studies, Public Administration, Socio-Economic Review and Sustainable Development. Fabrizio has been the principal investigator or co-investigator of three large research projects and visited the University of Lausanne, Heidelberg, Leiden and Luxembourg.

Before joining academia, Fabrizio gained extensive experience as a research consultant for private companies and Italian national and regional public authorities. During his PhD study at the University of Exeter, he worked as a full-time researcher on several projects on regulatory quality and policy appraisal funded by the European Commission, the World Bank and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. He has extensive experience in governmental projects on the implementation of regulatory impact assessment in Italy and the European Union.