Umberto Ricci (1879–1946) was an Italian academic and economist who served as the minister of education in 1945 shortly after the end of the Fascist rule in Italy.
[2] Then he graduated from the Higher School of Commerce in Venice (forerunner of the Ca' Foscari University) with a degree in political economy, finance and statistics.
[2][4] Following World War I Ricci was named as a member of the committee of technical experts, called the “commission for the revision of balances and the reduction of public expenditures”.
[2] Ricci was an ally and advisor of Alberto de Stefani, minister of finance in the cabinet of Benito Mussolini.
[2] After serving as the minister of education for a brief period Ricci returned to Cairo where he died of heart attack on 3 January 1946.