Roberto Benedetti is Professor in Economic Statistics at University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). He has been a visiting researcher at the National Centre for Geographic Information Analysis (UC-Santa Barbara), the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (University of Illinois) and the Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology (UOW). From 1994 to 2001 he held positions at the Italian National Statistical Institute, including serving as the head of the Agricultural Statistics Service. His current research interests focus on agricultural statistics, sample design, small area estimation, and spatial data analysis.
