BIO
Gianpiero Dalla-Zuanna was born in Padua, Italy in 1960. After his PhD in Demography at the University of Florence (1990), he worked at the universities of Rome and Messina, and he has been a full professor at the University of Padova since 2007. He has spent research periods in Tokyo, Moscow, Canberra and Melbourne. During 2008-2012 he was associate editor of the European Journal of Population. He is now on the Scientific Board of the GGS Project. In 2005-2009 he coordinated ITAGEN2, the first Italian survey on second generation immigrants.
Recently, he wrote the article Migration Italian Style. 1977-2018 (with A.D. Colombo), published in Population and Development Review (in press). In 2007-2008 and 2011-2013 he was official consultant on demography for the Italian Ministry for Family Policies. In this position, he represented Italy on the European Commission for Demographic Issues in Brussels. In the five years from March 2013 to March 2018 he was a member of the Republican Senate.