Lorenzo Giovanni Bellu is the Team Leader and Senior Economist at FAO Global Perspectives Studies Team. He has a PhD in Economic Policy Università Cattolica Milan, Italy.

His key areas of expertise include global and country-level development processes and related implications for food and agriculture, socio-economic and environmental impact assessment of policies; policy impact analysis by means of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE), and other quantitative analysis tools.

His thematic areas of interest comprise the analysis of cross-country interdependencies and contributions and limits of agricultural development and agricultural policies for poverty reduction and food security in the changing global environment.