Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Political Science at the University of Milan and President of the Network for the Advancement of Political and Social Sciences (NASP). His research focuses on comparative welfare states, European Integration, and empirical political theory. He is the author of The Boundaries of Welfare (OUP, 2005), and in 2014 he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for a project on 'Reconciling Economic and Social Europe'. He is currently one of the three PIs on an ERC Synergy project 'Sovereignty, Identity, and Solidarity in the EU post 2008'. In 2021 he was awarded the Mattei Dogan IPSA prize for High Achievement in Political Science.