Donatella Strangio is a full professor of Economic History at the Faculty of Economics and affiliated with the Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Land and Finance - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She has a P.h.D. in Economic History. She is the author of numerous books and articles on national and international journals. She is Director of Master’s program in Business Management – Sapienza University of Rome. Her more quoted works are on the famine in pre-industrial age, International and Italian Migration, Public Finance, Institutions and long run economic growth, and the history of tourism. She was a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, and research visiting in CVCE (Luxembourg), UBA Facultad de Ciencias Económicas (Buenos Aires), Columbia University (NYC-USA).