Furio Rosati owns a Master of Science in Economics and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is Professor of Public Finance at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and director of the "Understanding Children's Work" (UCW),  an inter-agency research initiative on child labor and youth employment involving the International Labor Organization, UNICEF and the World Bank. He is also the research director of the Italian Centre for International Development (ICID) and research fellow at IZA.

His research interest include public economics, household economics and development economics, and he has published in leading international journals.