Prof. Dr. Giovanni Orsina is Professor of History at Luiss-Guido Carli University, Italy.

He has published extensively, mostly but not only in Italian, on the political history of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research interests include the relationship between ideologies, institutions and political struggle, with a particular focus on liberalism.

At Luiss-Guido Carli University Giovanni Orsina is deputy director of the School of Government and director of the Master in European Studies. He is also research fellow of IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, where he is the coordinator of the PhD in Political History.