13 Facts About Lorenzo Fioramonti

In 2017, two books by Lorenzo Fioramonti were published Wellbeing Economy: Success in a World Without Growth and The World After GDP: Economics, Politics and International Relations in the Post-Growth Era, in May and March respectively.

Lorenzo Fioramonti has co-authored and co-edited a total of ten books.

Lorenzo Fioramonti's books include 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.

Lorenzo Fioramonti's work has been endorsed by public intellectuals such as Vandana Shiva, Susan George, Raj Patel and Kumi Naidoo, the former executive director of the environmental organization Greenpeace.

Lorenzo Fioramonti is the first Jean Monnet Programme Chair in Africa and the president of the European Union Studies Association of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Lorenzo Fioramonti 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.

Lorenzo Fioramonti has a monthly column in the Business Day, South Africa's leading financial newspaper.

Lorenzo Fioramonti was nominated in January 2018, as a candidate for the Five Star Movement in the 2018 Italian general election.

On 5 September 2019, Lorenzo Fioramonti was named Italian Minister of Public Education.

On 5 November 2019, Lorenzo Fioramonti announced that next year Italy will be the first country in the world where the study of climate change and sustainable development will be mandatory for students.

On 25 December 2019 Lorenzo Fioramonti resigned from government in protest.

Lorenzo Fioramonti objected to the government not providing significant extra funding in the 2020 budget for the Ministry of Education.

Lorenzo Fioramonti's decision was faced with strong criticism from his colleagues in the government and in the Five Star Movement, causing his resignation from the M5S on 30 December 2019.