Lorenzo Fioramonti (born 29 April 1977, in Rome, Italy) is a political scientist and former Italian Minister of Education, University and Research.

According to the Financial Times, Fioramonti argues that GDP is "not only a distorted mirror in which to view our increasingly complex economies, but also an impediment to building better societies.

[2] According to Public Books, Fioramonti’s research shows that “the reliance on GDP derives from a technocratic worldview that glorifies experts, corrodes communal values, and devalues the natural world.”[3]" For the LSE Review of Books, his research is a kind of “psychopath’s guide to bullying the world by numbers”, unmasking the pretension that “everything is ‘rational’, ‘independent’ and ‘objective’ and building fortresses of power around these intentional misrepresentations[4]” .

Fioramonti’s work has been endorsed by public intellectuals such as Vandana Shiva, Susan George, Raj Patel and Kumi Naidoo, the former executive director of the environmental organization Greenpeace.

[9] On 5 November 2019, Fioramonti announced that next year Italy will be the first country in the world where the study of climate change and sustainable development will be mandatory for students.