Daniele Archibugi is Director of National Research Council (CNR), Rome, at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS), of which he was also Acting Director from July 2018 to June 2020. He is also Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at theUniversity of London of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy atUniversity of London, Birkbeck College and member of the Academic Council of the Venice International University. He deals with economics and politics of innovation and technological change and with political theory of international relations. He graduated in Economics from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" with Federico Coffee and holds a PhD at the SPRU extension, University of Sussex working with Chris Freeman e Keith Pavitt.

He started working at the CNR in the Institute of Research Studies and Scientific Documentation directed by Paolo Bisogno. He has worked and taught at the Universities of Sussex, Cambridge, Naples, Rome Sapienza, Rome LUISS, London School of Economics and Political Science and Harvard. He has also taught courses at Asian universities such as Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and SWEFE University in Chengdu. In June 2006 he was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Sussex and in 2016 honorary member of the Réseau de Recherche sur l'Innovation.

He is an advisor to the European Union, the OECD, the Council of Europe, various United Nations agencies and national governments. He has directed numerous research projects for the European Commission and other international organizations. For the European Commission, he chaired the European Commission's Group of Experts on the subject A Wide Opening of the European Research Area to the World, was a member of the Group of Experts Global Europe 2030/2050 and coordinated the Report The Contribution of the European Commission to Responsible Research and Innovation. Together with Fabio Tuzi, he coordinated the Report on research and innovation in Italy. Science and technology policy analysis and data of the National Research Council, in June 2018 and the second Report on research and innovation in Italy. Science and technology policy analysis and data, in October 2019.

Head of the research area on Globalization, Research and Innovation, which includes two distinct lines of research: Global governance and cosmopolitan democracy; is Globalization of science and technology innovation.