Founder and honorary President of Fondazione Etica.
Senior expert in:
– innovation and evaluation of Public Administrations, measurement of administrative capacity;
– transparency and prevention of corruption;
– participatory processes, civic engagement;
– social impact innovation and social impact investing.
Since 2022 she is a director and research and development manager of Centro REP Srl, a research spin-off of Fondazione Etica.
She is part of the Expert Group on Public Administration and Governance of the European Commission – DG Reform.
Since 2008 she has been co-founder and honorary president of Fondazione Etica, which deals with the evaluation of the PA, transparency and prevention of corruption.
In 2015 she founded and chairs the Public Rating Agency; since 2017 she has been the coordinator of the GovLoc Lab of LUISS – Icedd.
She is a member of the Multistakeholder Forum of Open Government Partnership Italia, Astrid Foundation, Social Italy Foundation, LIBenter and Inequality and Diversity Forum.
She collaborates with the European Commission-DG Regio and with the World Bank-GPSA; with the Ministry of Public Function, the Ministry of Regional Affairs, the PdCM - Agency for Territorial Cohesion, Anac; with some Regions and Municipalities with Anci Lombardia.
She has been a lecturer for several Universities such as the Federico II in Naples, Tor Vergata in Rome, the one in Perugia, Cattolica in Milan, as well as for the National Federation of the Knights of Labour, for ANAC, for Legambiente. She was Vice-President of the CER (European Research Centre). She worked in the field of Public Administration research for CENSIS, CNR (National Research Council), University of Florence, IRTSA (Research Institute on the State and the Administration) and collaborated with the UN as analyst of the Holy See Mission in New York.
Author of many articles and papers, her texts are periodically published by Il Corriere della Sera and LUISS Open, as well as on Huffington Post, Italia Oggi.
She also published the following books (selection):
“Municipalities and the challenge of sustainability“, P.Caporossi, Rubbettino Ed, 2021
“Regions, an engine to repair“, P.Caporossi, Rubbettino Ed, 2021 – also translated into English
“W The Regions?”, P.Caporossi, Rubbettino Ed, 2019 – also translated into English
“Neither smart nor open, meanwhile the city“, P.Caporossi, Rubbettino Ed, 2018
“How to make public administrations efficient and transparent”, P.Caporossi, Rubbettino Ed., 2017 – also translated into English
“The right of citizens to reuse abandoned spaces - Experiences of active participation” – aa.vv., Cittadinanzattiva Ed., 2016
“Party reform in Italy. Why is a law on parties worthwhile?, edited by P.Caporossi, YCP, 2013
“The Federalism that already exists. The policy read in the budgets of the Municipalities ", edited by P. Caporossi and G. Gitti, Il Mulino Ed., 2011
“The appearance. Because the PD was never born”, Pascale Ed., 2009.
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