Francesco Billari

Rector

Rector of Bocconi University and Professor of Demography in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, he is also a Fellow of the British Academy.
His academic career spans leading universities and international research centers, including the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research—where he served as a research group leader—and the University of Oxford, where he headed the Department of Sociology and was a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College.

He has served as President of both the European Association for Population Studies and the Italian Association for Population Studies, a section of the Italian Statistical Society. He has also been a member of the scientific councils of several major institutions, including the Center for Demographic Studies at the Institut National d'Études Démographiques, the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, the Paris School of Economics, and the Vienna Institute of Demography.

A Bocconi alumnus, he earned his PhD at the University of Padua.