Pasquale Tridico (born 21 September 1975) is an Italian economist and politician of the Five Star Movement (M5S).

[2] Born in Calabria, he moved to Rome to pursue his graduate studies.

Tridico is a professor at the Roma Tre University department of economics, and has served as secretary-general of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy since 2012.

[3] Ahead of the 2018 general election, he was M5S leader Luigi Di Maio's candidate for minister of labour.

[2] For the 2024 European Parliament election, Tridico was selected as the lead candidate of M5S in Southern Italy.