Luigi Mauri

Education and training

Political Sciences and Sociology Degree at Università Cattolica of Milan.

Work experience

Sociologist, he held various research and teaching academic positions.

For many years he was a public servant in the social policy sector, doing social and health planning, writing Social Plans, activating and implementing Social Information Systems, coordinating research and innovative actions in the field of welfare.

He spent some time studying abroad, with a special focus on Social Information Systems of support to decision-making and related organisational processes, management of objective-oriented working teams.

He was member and then consultant of the National Social and Health Information System Committee, at the Home Office.

He developed the ability to direct complex scientific research, through the coordination of multi professional teams including experts (demographers, statisticians, sociologists, anthropologists, social psychologists) from public bodies, Universities, Research institutes.

In the year 1989 he established with other partners Synergia, the company which he now heads.
In this position he directed various complex, interdisciplinary empirical research projects, both at national and international level. Among others, he coordinated some of the most significant applied sociological studies on the issue of families and their strategies to face social and health needs, surveys on elderly conditions, as well as consultancy about the modelling and the implementation of Social Information Systems for Regions and Central bodies.

He collaborated as expert with the Council of Europe.

He is currently member of various scientific committees of regional and local Social Observatories.

He published various papers and edited scientific books on the most relevant issues concerning social change and welfare policies.

Contacts: lmauri@synergia-net.it