Giorgio Alberti, Ph.D ,

Dr Giorgio Alberti is an expert in Democratic Processes and the rise and development of Populist Movements which threaten its stability and very existence. His early research on the organization of Indian Communities in the Central Sierra of Perú led him to discover particular forms of local, participatory democracy, which contrasted with an oligarchic style of government at the national level. Since then, the question of democracy and the search for the determinants of its good performance and stability has been at the centre of his interests, particularly in the Latin American setting, where democracy is still unstable and fragile. He held the chair of Theory of Political Development at the University of Bologna (Italy), taught at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University and was also visiting professor at Columbia and Cornell Universities (USA).