Biography
A political scientist specialised in public policy, Claudio Radaelli (BSc in Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi, PhD in political science, University of Florence) joined the Florence School of Transnational Governance as Full-Time Professor in September 2020. His research interests include the policy process of the European Union, policy learning, the roles and usages of expertise and policy narratives in public policy and administration, regulation, and regulatory analysis tools.
Professor Radaelli was awarded two advanced grants by the European Research Council. He co-authored Designing Rulemaking: How Regulatory Policy Instruments Matter for Governance (OUP, 2024) and co-edited with Fabrizio De Francesco The Elgar Companion to the OECD (Elgar, 2023). He is co-editing a major Handbook of Policy Learning with Bishoy Zaki (Ghent University), to appear in 2026.
His research is funded by two Horizon Projects, MORES (on Moral Emotions in Politics) and RADAR (Renewing Administration through Democratic Anchorage Reforms). At the School, he teaches MA and Executive Education Courses on public policy and regulation. He is the chair of the MA selection committee. Claudio is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Public Policy Association and chief editor of the International Review of Public Policy. In 2025, he was awarded the Regulatory Studies Development Award by the European Consortium for Political Research, Standing Group on Regulation & Governance.
Claudio joined us on long-term leave from University College London. Prior to UCL, he was Director of the Centre for European Governance at the University of Exeter (2004-2018) and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Bradford. He was a regular visiting professor at Sciences-Po Paris, Sciences-Po Paris, University of Agder, and the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin. Looking back at Claudio’s EUI past, he co-directed at the EUI the RSC Forum on International Regulatory Competition and Cooperation and was Jean Monnet Fellow at the RSCAS.