Roberto Di Monaco is a Research Professor at the University of Torino. He is member of the MobilityLab (European Job Mobility Laboratory) research team, working on comparative studies on labour markets and employment services across 27 European countries, on behalf of the European Commission. He was the Italian member of the National experts team in the EU-wide evaluation of the EQUAL 2000-2006 community initiative. In the last fifteen years he designed and carried out various Institutional monitoring projects on the local labour market using the administrative data of the Public Employment Services (e.g. the Observatory on Labour Market and Training of Turin Municipality and the Observatory on Social Policies of the Province of Turin).