Piergiuseppe Fortunato

Piergiuseppe Fortunato is a Full Professor at the University of Neuchâtel within the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and Institute of Economic Research, concurrently leading industrial policy and global value chain initiatives at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). His work spans collaboration with governments across Asia, Africa, and Latin America while actively engaging in global governance dialogues through OECD, WTO, and other international forums.

His research integrates political economy, development economics, and international trade with emphases on industrial policy evolution, democratization-development linkages, and crisis response mechanisms. Recent investigations analyze populism's economic manifestations through social media dynamics, cultural markers of pandemics, and sustainable industrial transformation strategies, reflecting his dual academic-practitioner perspective on global economic systems.

Analysis of his 2020-2025 publications reveals three dominant thematic clusters: pandemic socioeconomic impacts examining cultural determinants of health behavior; digital-era political economy studying social media's role in populist mobilization; and industrial development frameworks addressing green transitions in global value chains. These intersecting trajectories demonstrate consistent focus on policy-relevant economic transformations in developing and developed contexts.