Full Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, he is founder and spokesman of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, a network of over 180 subjects from civil society. From 2001 to 2009 he was Director of the Statistical Department and Chief Statistician of the OCSE, where he started the Global Project on “Measurement of Company Progress”. From 2009 to 2013 he was President of ISTAT. He was Minister of Labor and Social Policies. In 2014 he was called by the UN Secretary General to co-chair the Independent Expert Advisory Board on “Data revolution for sustainable development”.