 Benedetto is also associate editor of the peer-reviewed "European Journal of Government and Economics", and co-ordinator of the EUROSCI Network Centre in the UK.Benedetto is a grandson of Geoffrey Grigson, the British poet, editor and critic.He earned a BA from the University of Sussex, and did his graduate studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, from which he earned an MSc(Econ) and a PhD.