Prof. Roberto Castaldi is Associate Professor of Political Theory at eCampus University, where he is Director of the Research Centre on multilevel governance and integration processes, and of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence fEUture. He is also Director of the Centro Studi, formazione, comunicazione e progettazione sull’Unione Europea e la global governance and of Euractiv Italia, the main online media on the EU in Italy. He is Co-editor of Perspectives on Federalism for the Centro Studi sul Federalismo. He received a Spinelli Prize for European Outreach. He was member of the Italian Government Scientific Committee on the future of Europe. His research activity focuses on federalism, European integration and global governance.

He is President of the Tuscany section of the Union of European Federalists. In 2020 at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic when Member states closed borders and stopped trade of medical equipment and no common EU response was in sight, he launched an Appeal for a European answer to the pandemic with Daniel Innerarity, proposing to use the ESM to strengthen health-care system, to invest together on vaccines giving extraordinary powers to the Commission and to create EU debt to finance e Recovery plan. The Appeal was signed by several hundred intellectuals and public figures, and published across Europe by the main newspapers on March 10 2020.