Lorenzo Fioramonti
Lorenzo Fioramonti is professor of political economy at the University of Pretoria and director of the Centre for the study of Governance Innovation (GovInn).
He is the author of 9 books, including the bestselling Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World’s Most Powerful Number and How Numbers Rule the World: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics. According to the Hedgehog Review, Gross Domestic Problem is one three most influential books on the gross domestic product published in the 21st century.[1]
According to Public Books, Fioramonti’s research shows that “the reliance on GDP derives from a technocratic worldview that glorifies experts, corrodes communal values, and devalues the natural world.”[2]" For the LSE Review of Books, his research is a kind of “psychopath’s guide to bullying the world by numbers”, unmasking the pretention that “everything is ‘rational’, ‘independent’ and ‘objective’ and building fortresses of power around these intentional misrepresentations[3]” . Fioramonti’s work has been endorsed by public intellectuals such as Vandana Shiva, Susan George, Raj Patel and Kumi Naidoo, the executive director of the environmental organization Greenpeace. Fioramonti is also the first Jean Monnet Programme Chair in Africa and the president of the European Union Studies Association of Sub-Saharan Africa.[4] He also holds the UNESCO/UNU Chair in Regional Integration, Migration and Free Movement of People[5] He is a fellow of the Centre for Social Investment of the University of Heidelberg, of the Hertie School of Governance and of the United Nations University. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Die Presse, Das Parlament, Der Freitag, The Mail&Guardian, Foreign Policy and opendemocracy.net. He has a monthly column in the Business Day, South Africa’s leading financial newspaper.[6]
He is married and has two sons.
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External links
- Faculty page at the Centre for the study of Governance Innovation: http://governanceinnovation.org/lorenzofioramonti/
- globalreboot.org, Lorenzo Fioramonti's website
