Pasquale Tridico

Pasquale Tridico (born September 21, 1975) is an Italian economist and politician of the Five Star Movement (M5S). He was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. He served as president of the National Institute for Social Security from 2019 to 2023.

Career
Tridico is a professor at the Roma Tre University department of economics, and has served as secretary-general of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy since 2012. Ahead of the 2018 general election, he was M5S leader Luigi Di Maio's candidate for minister of labour. He was instead appointed president of the National Institute for Social Security, serving from 2019 to 2023. For the 2024 European Parliament election, Tridico was selected as the lead candidate of M5S in Southern Italy.