Luca Coscioni - Education and University Career

Education and University Career

He was a Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Viterbo (Italy) who engaged very actively in the social and political spheres with the political organization Radicali Italiani and with the Luca Coscioni Association (LCA), which he presided over from 2001 to 2006. His life was marked by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) which claimed his life at the age of 38.

He specialized in classical studies at the Liceo Ginnasio Statale F.A. Gualtiero of Orvieto and then he studied Economics and Trade at the Rome-based University La Sapienza, where he graduated in 1991 with the maximum vote. His degree thesis addressed the commercial relationship between the West and the developing world. The following year he was subsequently awarded a research doctorate in "Mountain Economy" at the University of Trento where he started his research activity. He deepened his work by holding a seminary in the Department of Economic and Evaluative Sciences of the University of Viterbo on forestal and agrarian development. In those years, he became increasingly interested in social and political areas, though seen through the lens of economics. In 1994 he started lecturing on "Consumers' Behaviour" and held in depth courses of Political and International Economy. Afterwards, he began to collaborate with an influential French institute based in Nancy.

After a year Dr. Coscioni became a Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Viterbo. Simultaneously, he started to get involved in local politics in his native Viterbo as member of the city council.