Ugo Mattei

He is the academic coordinator of the International University College of Turin, Italy, a school where issues of law and finance in global capitalism are critically approached.

Ugo Mattei has recently oriented the focus of his research on the study and practice of the commons after successfully masterminding a nationwide referendum against privatization of water in 2011.

Mattei experimented some of the ideas developed in that book in Naples as the President of the local water company from 2012 to 2014 and in Chieri (Turin) as a Deputy Major in 2014 and 2015.

Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community"[3] that won IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award forPolitics/Current Events in 2016 and has since been translated to various languages.

In 2023, "Generazioni Future", with Mattei as its president, promoted "two national referendums" in Italy against sending weapons systems to the Ukrainian war theatre and against the privatisation of the Italian health service.