EUFutures Steering Committee
The EUFutures Steering Committee brings together scholars from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna who provide strategic guidance to the Centre’s activities.
Manuela Moschella
Director of EU Futures Centre of Excellence
Manuela Moschella is a Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna, where she also serves as Director of the research centre CONNECT – Transnational Connections and Governance. She is an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University SAIS-Europe and one of the editors of the Review of International Political Economy. She has served as Associate Fellow at the Europe Programme at Chatham House and as Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovations (CIGI). Her research focuses around the political dynamics of economic policymaking, the evolving interplay between technocratic governance and democratic accountability, and the transformation of European political economy and European economic governance
Within EUFutures, she is the Director and convenes and chairs the Executive Committee (WP1). She will deliver one of the four yearly teaching modules as part of her course “Politics of Money and Finance”. She leads WP2, co-organises the Policy Development Lab, contributes to research and co-organises the public lecture series in WP2, contributes to research in WP3, contributes to the design and delivery of workshops and to drafting the policy kit in WP4, and contributes to dissemination and academic publications and to the organization of the final event In WP5.
Steering Committee
Chiara Benassi
Member of the EU Futures Centre of Excellence Steering Committee
Chiara Benassi is an Associate Professor of Sociology of Work and Senior Visiting Fellow at King’s Business School. She is also Associate Editor of the journals Industrial and Labor Relations Review and Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research. Chiara joined the University of Bologna in 2023. Previously, she was Reader in Comparative Employment Relations at King’s Business School. Before her appointment at King’s, she worked as Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London and as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on comparative industrial relations, the political economy of labour markets, and European growth models, and has been funded by organizations such as the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Hans Böckler Foundation.
Within EUFutures, she is part of the Executive Steering Committee (WP1) and will deliver one of the four yearly teaching modules as part of her course “Political Economy of Labour Markets” in WP2. She co-organises the Policy Development Lab in WP2, co-leads and contribute to research in WP3, and coordinates the co-production workshops in WP4, and contributes to dissemination and academic publications and to the organization of the final event In WP5.
Arianna Tassinari
Member of the EU Futures Centre of Excellence Steering Committee
Arianna Tassinari is a comparative political economist with an interdisciplinary background spanning across economic and labour sociology, industrial relations and social policy. She joined the Department of Social and Political Sciences in October 2022 as a tenure-track assistant professor, and is associate professor since October 2025. Prior to joining UniBo, she was Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. She obtained her PhD in Industrial Relations from the University of Warwick in 2019. Her research investigates patterns of transformation and instability in advanced capitalist economies, with a specific focus on labour politics, industrial relations and labour market policy; the impacts of economic crises and technological change on employment relations; and the politics of growth and stagnation in peripheral capitalism. Her work is primarily comparative, with a strong focus on Southern Europe.
Within EUFutures, she is a member of the Executive Steering Committee. She will deliver one of the four yearly teaching modules as part of her course “Comparative Capitalisms in Europe” in WP2 and co-organise the policy development labs. She co-leads and contributes to the research in WP3, contributes to the design and delivery of workshops and to drafting the policy kit in WP4, leads WP5 and contributes to dissemination and academic publications and to the organization of the final event In WP5.
