Andrea Romano attends secondary school by the Salesians in his hometown, Livorno, then he graduated in Pisa and obtained a research doctorate in Crisis and transformation of society in Turin.

Later he moved to Moscow, where he learned Russian, to deepen his studies on the formation of the Stalinist system of the 1930s and on the relations between the Bolshevik party and rural society.

Subsequently he returned to his homeland as a researcher for the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, where he worked from 1993 to 1998.

[1] During the first and second D'Alema governments he collaborated with the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Umberto Ranieri.

From 2009 to 2013 he was member of Italia Futura, a think tank chaired by Luca Cordero di Montezemolo.