Ugo Bardi – Currently Member of the Executive Committee of the Club of Rome, fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Science, member of the executive committee of the Italian System Dynamics Association (Sydic), member of the Interuniversity Consortium for Science and Technology of Materials (INSTM) and of the Energia per l’Italia association. 

Ugo Bardi is interested in systems studies, with a special view on energy, ecosystems and socioeconomic systems. He is the author of several books, including the recent The Seneca Effect (2017), The Empty Sea (with Ilaria Perissi) (2019), Limits and Beyond (co-author (2022), Exterminations (2024) and the most recent The End of Population Growth, a Report to the Club of Rome. (2026).  

He is known for the model termed “The Seneca Effect” that describes the trajectory of complex systems under external forcing. He is also engaged in evolutionary studies of the Earth system. 

 Ugo Bardi was born in Italy in 1952. He lives in Florence with his family.