Giacomo Benedetto FRSA (born August 1972) is a British Italian political scientist and holder of a Jean Monnet Chair at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is an expert in European Union politics, and has researched and published extensively on the European Parliament, Euroscepticism, and the EU budget. 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.