Fabio Padovano is Professeur des Sciences Économiques at the University of Rennes (France) and Professor of Public Finance at the University of Roma Tre (Italy). He earned his Ph.D in Economics at George Mason University, where he was Research Assistant to Nobel Laureate James Buchanan. He is Director of the Condorcet Center for Political Economy at the University of Rennes and has been President of the European Public Choice Society (2009-2011). He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Western Ontario, University of Maryland, George Mason University, University of Fribourg, Academic Visitor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Professeur Invité at the Université de Rennes1. His current research interests are in the fields of public choice, political economy, local public economics, law and economics, economics of religion and economics of the arts.
