Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research

About the Author

Filomena Maggino is a Full Professor of Social Statistics at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is also Coordinator of the Department for Integral Wellbeing at the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis. She previously was Advisor to the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte from 2018 to 2021 and President of "Control Room Benessere Italia," under the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers from 2019 to 2021. Prof. Maggino’s scientific interests and research expertise include: indicators (definition and construction, systems, synthesis, social indicators); statistics and complexity (statistical analysis in complex system; forecasting in complex systems); survey design and analysis (questionnaire construction and definition, and sampling design); Big Data (in official statistics and social indicators; data mining); representing and communicating complex data; statistics and political communication; and applications to measuring the quality of life, quality of society, inequalities and analyzing the well-being of nations. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Social Indicators Research journal (Springer) and has authored, edited and co-edited several publications, volumes, and books, mainly in international contexts. In addition, she is also President and co-founder of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies and Scientific Director and co-founder of the Cyber Security and International Relations Laboratory (CIRLab) and was Past-president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies and chair and organizer of two ISQOLS conferences (Florence, 2009; Venice, 2012). She has also been an advisor to several governmental organizations and member of numerous national and international committees, international associations, editorial boards of scientific journals, and scientific committees of national and international conferences. Prof. Maggino has been chair and organizer of several international and national scientific conferences and been invited as keynote speaker and lecturer all over the world, and awarded with several recognitions for her work―including the Officer of the Order "Of Merit of the Italian Republic".

Filomena Maggino

Filomena Maggino is a Full Professor of Social Statistics at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is also Coordinator of the Department for Integral Wellbeing at the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis. She previously was Advisor to the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte from 2018 to 2021 and President of "Control Room Benessere Italia," under the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers from 2019 to 2021.