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History of economic thought. Transformation of systems of cultural production and cultural heritage management. Global contemporary art systems.

I earned my Degree in Economics (DES) from Università Bocconi in 1980. In 1985 I obtained a Doctorat de troisième cycle at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales in Paris. Since 2000 I have been Associate Professor at the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management. 
I am responsible for the Arts and Heritage Major in the Ms ACME of the Graduate School of Università Bocconi and of the Arts and Culture courses at the CLEACC Undergraduate programme at Bocconi. I have been a visiting professor at the Phd School of IMT Lucca - Heritage management and development.
I have been Director of the Fondazione Palazzo Te (Mantova) since 2016 and I am a board member of Italia Rugby Federation, Fondazione Piccolo Teatro (MIlano) and Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como).

Competitive strategies in media and creative industries. Business and corporate strategy. Media and digital convergence. Entertainment industries management. Business model development and innovation. Business model and digital transformation. Entrepreneurship. Sustainability of cultural institutions and organizations.

Born February 5th 1988.
BSc. (2010) and MSc. (2013) Degrees in Economics and Management for Arts, Culture and Communication, Università Bocconi.
Lecturer in Business Administration and Strategy.
Deputy Director of Bocconi BSc. CLEACC.
Affiliate Faculty ASK Bocconi Research Centre.
Academic Fellow in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, SDA Bocconi School of Management.
I develop research, consulting and executive education projects working with companies in the ICT, TLC and Media industries.

Medieval and Byzantine art, with particular focus on issues of artistic interaction across the Mediterranean.

I am Assistant Professor in the History of Art at Bocconi, and Research Fellow of the British School at Rome.
I hold a degree in cultural management from Bocconi, and an MA and PhD from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Prior to joining the faculty at Bocconi, I held the positions of Research Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut; Lecturer in the History of Byzantine Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art; and Assistant Director at The British School at Rome.
My scholarship has received recognition from a number of institutions, including, most recently: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (2016); The Leibniz WissenschaftsCampus, Mainz/Frankfurt (2019); the KHI - Florenz (2020-21); the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris (2021).

My current work focuses on the following areas:

• The nexus between arts and politics in the medieval Mediterranean, with specific focus on artistic interactions, political conflict, and public memory. My current monograph project explores these issues through the interpretative lens of crisis, and in relation to the visual arts of Venice in the fourteenth century.
• Conceptualizations and artistic applications of light and transparency, with a particular focus on the use and meaning of rock crystal in the religious and secular cultures of medieval Europe.
• Medieval materiality, with emphasis on the theoretical and social constructions of value in the arts of the medieval and Byzantine Mediterranean.

Feminist cultural organising and role of gender and feminist issues in the cultural and creative sectors. Practice theories in management and organisation studies. Contemporary art market and system. Culture-led processes of social transformation and territorial development.

I received my Phd in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage at the IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca (Italy), with a dissertation on feminist cultural organising with a focus on the history, legacy and practices of Italian feminism. I have been Visiting Researcher at the Gothenburg Research Institute at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. I graduated in Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment at Bocconi University.
I teach Arts Management and Markets and Cultural Mediation courses within the Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment Master of Science program here in Bocconi University. I also teach Economia e Mercato dell’Arte course in the Master of Science in Visual Cultures of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milano.