Fabio Leone

Since 2022, he has served as an adjunct lecturer at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research focuses on the political, social, and economic history of modern and contemporary India. He is currently studying the premiership of P. V. Narasimha Rao (1991–1996), during which India embarked on economic liberalization and adopted a new foreign policy in the 1990s. He has taught at the Universities of Padua and Siena. He has also taught and conducted research at several universities in Europe and the United Kingdom.

He was a research fellow at the University of Eastern Piedmont (UPO). He earned his PhD from the University of Siena with a dissertation on the democratization process in India.

He is the author of Prophet and Statesmen in Crafting Democracy in India: Political Leadership, Ideas, and Compromises (2019). His work has appeared in journals including Asia Maior, Il Politico, Democratization, and Political Studies Review.