Daniele Archibugi is a Research Director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome, affiliated at the Institute on Population and Social Policy (IRPPS), and Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck College, Department of Management. He works on the economics and policy of technological change and on the political theory of international relations. He has graduated in Economics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and taken his D.Phil. at the SPRU, University of Sussex. He has worked and taught at the Universities of Sussex, Naples, Cambridge and Rome. In the academic year 2003-2004 he has been Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, affiliated at the Department of Government and at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance), and in the academic year 2004-2005 Lauro de Bosis Visiting Professor at Harvard University, affiliated at the Department of Government and at the Minda de Gunzeberg Center for European Studies. In June 2006 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Sussex.

He is an adviser to the European Union, the OECD, several UN agencies and various national governments. He has led many research projects for the European Commission and other international organisations. He is currently chairing the European Commission's Expert Group on "A Wide Opening of the European Research Area to the World".

He is the author of several books and more than 150 articles in refereed journals. Among his recent books, he has co-edited The Globalising Learning Economy (Oxford University Press, 2001), and has edited Debating Cosmopolitics (Verso, 2003). His latest book, The Global Commonwealth of Citizens. Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy was published by Princeton University Press in October 2008, and translated in Italian, Japanese and other languages. He has co-edited Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and co-authored Innovation and Economic Crisis. Lessons and Prospects from the Economic Downturn (Routledge, 2011).