Gianluca Busilacchi has served as president of the Healthcare Policies Committee and the Policy Evaluation Committee in the Regional Parliament, Regione Marche, as well as a consultant for the Commission of Social Exclusion of the Government of Italy. Previously, Busilacchi has been a visiting scholar at the University of Barcelona and the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He also was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp. His main fields of research are social policy in a comparative perspective, poverty, guaranteed minimum income policies, and healthcare policies.