Pasquale L. Scandizzo holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Professor of Political Economy, past Director and Fellow of the Center for Economic and International Studies, Senior Fellow and Member of the Advisory Board of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Foundation, President of the Villa Mondragone Economic Development Association, President Emeritus of the Italian Society of Development Economics, and Chairman of OpenEconomics International, a university spin off focusing on project evaluation and economic development. His former institutional positions include the Governing Board of the Italian Institute of Statistics, the Italian Institute for Economic Planning (President), the National Planning Board, the Italian Parliamentary Budget Committee (Senior Adviser), the Ministry of Economics and Finance (Economic Adviser) the World Bank (Senior Economist and Research Coordinator). He has developed widely published methodologies to evaluate public investment programs, by combining option theory, cost benefit analysis and computable general equilibrium methods, and has been advising the World Bank and other multilateral institutions on the applications of these methodologies to policies of sustainable development.