Marco Fortis is Vice-President of Edison Foundation and Co-President of the Scientific Committee of the Edison Foundation.
He is President of the Scientific Committee of the Confindustria Research Center.
He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Trento Economics Festival
Until recently he was a Professor in Industrial Economy and Foreign Trade at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of Università Cattolica, Milan, where he taught since 1989.
He was awarded the Commander and Grand Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic.
He is co-editor of Economia Politica. Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics.
He writes leading articles for Il Sole 24 Ore and Il Mattino.
He was an economic advisor to Matteo Renzi, the Italian Prime Minister from 2014 to 2016.
He was member of the RAI (Italian National Television) Board of Directors from 2015 to 2018.