Massimiliano Valerii

Massimiliano Valerii is the general director of Censis, the Italian institute for socio-economical research. After graduating in Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome, he devoted his research to social, economic and territorial issues. He is curator of the yearly Rapporto sulla situazione sociale del Paese – the Report on the social situation of the Country – published since 1967 and considered one of the most qualified and complete instruments for interpreting Italy’s socio-economic reality. He was a columnist for Repubblica and teaches Media, Society, Institutions in the Master's degree in Publishing and Writing at Sapienza University of Rome. He wrote the essays La notte di un’epoca (2019), Il contagio del desiderio (2020) e Le ciliegie di Hegel (2022), all published by Ponte alle Grazie.