Professor Paolo Garonna is a Professor of Economic Policy at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. He is President of the Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice Foundation, where he has served as a member of the Scientific Committee since 2008, and President of the Italian section of ELEC—the European League for Economic Cooperation.

After graduating from Sapienza University of Rome, he pursued further studies and research in the United States (University of Denver) and in the United Kingdom (University of Cambridge). 

Among other roles, he has served as Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Director General of ISTAT (Italian National Institute of Statistics), Chief Economist of Confindustria, and Secretary General of the Italian Banking, Insurance and Finance Federation (FeBAF).

He has been an economic advisor in Italy and abroad in various fields of economics, particularly on issues related to labor economics, international economics, and the economics of research, and he has produced a significant number of monographs, essays, and articles published in national and international journals, with contributions on financial economics, labor economics, and the economics of science and technology.

Since September 2026, Prof. Paolo Garonna has been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the CSF Foundation.