Giacomo Benedetto FRSA[2] (born August 1972[3]) is a British Italian political scientist and holder of a Jean Monnet Chair at Royal Holloway, University of London.
[4] His doctoral thesis (2005), under the supervision of Simon Hix, dealt with Institutionalised Consensus in Europe's Parliament.
[7] He joined Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2006,[8] and was appointed Jean Monnet Chair in 2016, with an inaugural lecture entitled £350 million per week and why Europe needs a budget.
[10][11] As a Jean Monnet Chair, he was also invited to provide oral evidence on Brexit and the EU budget by the House of Lords EU financial affairs sub-committee of the select committee on the European Union,[12] and to provide written evidence for the European Parliament Committee on Budgets on the EU budget during the previous decade.
[13] For the election of new parliamentarians in 2019, the European Parliament commissioned Benedetto to author a History of the EU Budget, which was published in 23 languages.