The daughter of Italian Jewish parents, she is married to the French political scientist Dominique Moïsi and a resident of France.
She was educated in the United States and is a graduate of Harvard University where she obtained her PhD in Contemporary European History.
[2] Amongst others, Diana Pinto published a reader on Contemporary Italian Sociology (1981) and the autobiographical book Entre deux mondes (Between two worlds, 1991).
She has lectured widely on transatlantic issues and on Jewish life in contemporary Europe as a crucial chapter in the continent's pluralist challenges.
[4] In 2013, Harvard University Press published Pinto's psychological, symbolic portrait of "postmodern" Israeli society,[5] Israel Has Moved.