Paolo Barnard

Paolo Rossi-Barnard (born 2 January 1958) is an Italian journalist and documentary maker.

Born in Bologna, Italy, he began his media career at RAI, for the Italian public television program Samarcanda, after his bachelor's degree in Psychology.

As an author he has written books on terrorism in the Middle East conflicts and the health system in Italy.

His opinions, published on Barnard's website, led to the organization of the first Italian meeting on Modern Money Theory, held on 25–27 February 2012 in Rimini.

He is interviewed in the documentary Piigs (2017), dubbed in English by actor Willem Dafoe.