PhD Faculty Board

Paola Bongini

Director
Paola Bongini is Full Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Her research interests are in empirical banking and financial regulation with specific focus on financial literacy and financial education, serving as a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Foundation for Financial Education (Feduf). She has been involved in several national and international research projects and in relevant outreach activities both in the financial and nonprofit sector.
https://www.unimib.it/paola-agnese-bongini

Elisabetta Marafioti

Deputy Director
Elisabetta Marafioti is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Milano–Bicocca (Italy). She holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management and a Degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University. She is President of the MsC in Management and Service Design and Director of the Master in Management and Digital Transformation at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Her research focuses on digital transformation, sustainability, sustainable innovation and business model innovation.
https://www.unimib.it/elisabetta-marafioti

Elisa Arrigo

Elisa Arrigo, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS), Milan (Italy). She teaches Marketing and Marketing Metrics at the University of Milano-Bicocca, and her main research interests are in the fields of Fashion & Luxury Marketing and Fashion & Luxury Retailing.
https://www.unimib.it/elisa-arrigo

Gustavo Barboza

Gustavo A. Barboza is a Full Professor and the Jack and Vada Reynolds Endowed Chair of International Business at the College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans (USA) where he teaches Administrative Decision Making, Strategic Decision Making and Global Business Leadership. His current research interests include topics relating to international business and economic growth, geography and entrepreneurship, financial education and financial literacy, issues on the field of Micro Credit and relating to Corporate Social Responsibility.
http://business.loyno.edu/bio/gustavo-barboza

Camilla Buzzacchi

Camilla Buzzacchi, Ph.D. in Constitutional Law, is Full Professor of constitutional, budget and public economic law. She is Deputy Director of the Department of Business and Law and Director of the Executive Programme Social and Health Services Law (DISESO) of University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Her teaching engagement and her research experience concern issues of public intervention of national and EU institutions, EU funding, competition law and services, public budget and fiscal rules, local government and independent agencies.
https://www.unimib.it/camilla-buzzacchi

Stefano Calciolari

Stefano Calciolari is Associate Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). He holds a Master of Public Administration from the Syracuse University (NY, USA), a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Parma (Italy). He was Post-doc at Bocconi University. His research interests revolve around organization and innovation and performance management, with a focus on public and healthcare organizations. He is founder of the SIG Healthcare Management at the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) and member of the Italian Health Economics Association (AIES).
www.unimib.it/stefano-calciolari

Richard Callahan

Richard Callahan is a Professor at the University of San Francisco (USA), with a joint appointment from the USF School of Management and the USF School of Nursing and Health Professions. Callahan is Co-Director of the USF Master of Public Health Program in Sacramento and the Director of the Health Services Administration concentration in the Master of Public Administration in the School of Management. His research, consulting, publications, and teaching focuses on leadership behaviors and strategy practices that are effective in complex, demanding and dynamic environments in the public and nonprofit sectors.
https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/richard-callahan

Simona Comi

Simona Comi is Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Business and Law of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Her research interests are in the field of empirical labour and education economics, applied microeconometrics and policy impact evaluation.
www.unimib.it/simona-lorena-comi

Barbara Del Bosco

Barbara Del Bosco is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). She received her PhD in Business Administration from the University of Pavia, she was Assistant Professor at the University of Bergamo and carried out research and teaching at Bocconi University. Her research concentrates mainly on entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance and international business.
www.unimib.it/barbara-del-bosco

Federica Doni

Federica Doni, PhD, is Associate Professor in Business Administration and Accounting. She is the Director of the Master’s Degree Sustainability in Law Finance and Management (SiLFiM) at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Her primary research interest is on Intangibles and Intellectual Capital, corporate governance, ESG and Integrated Reporting, SDGs, climate change and biodiversity issues. She is the Principal Investigator of the Jean Monnet Module Application "Sustainability Disclosure in Corporate Reporting. Improvement and harmonization of best practices in European Union" (2019-2022).
https://www.unimib.it/federica-doni

Mila Gascó-Hernandez

Mila Gascó-Hernandez is the Associate Research Director at the Center for Technology in Government and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Rockefeller College (USA). She was awarded the Enric Prat de la Riba award for the best PhD thesis on public management and administration, given by the School of Public Administration of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. Her areas of research are mainly related to information and technology in government, including electronic and open government, e-governance, public sector innovation, smart cities, and public policy evaluation.
https://www.albany.edu/rockefeller/faculty/mila-gasco-hernandez

Caterina Liberati

Caterina Liberati is an Associate Professor in Economic Statistics at the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Her current research interests are in Business Analytics, Customers Profiling and Credit Risk Modeling.
https://www.unimib.it/caterina-liberati

Warren Maroun

Warren Maroun is Professor of Accountancy at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He holds a PhD from King’s College London and a visiting position at PricewaterhouseCoopers. His research interests include, auditing, corporate governance, financial reporting and integrated reporting.
https://www.wits.ac.za/staff/academic-a-z-listing/m/mar/warrenmarounwitsacza/
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Mattia Martini

Mattia Martini is Associate Professor in Management at the Department of Business and Law, University of Milano-Bicocca. He has participated in different national and European projects related to the governance of labour market services, the human capital development systems and the management of sustainable innovation. His main research interests actually concern employability development, sustainable HRM, business ethics and sustainable innovation.
https://www.unimib.it/mattia-martini

Francesca Mattassoglio

Francesca Mattassoglio is Associate Professor of Banking and Financial Market Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). She holds a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law at University of Milan. She is member of the CryptoAssetLab. Her research focuses on the impact of technological innovation on the financial system (Fintech) and its regulation, with particular attention to Big data, Marketplace lending, Crypto-assets and Central Banks Digital Currencies.
https://www.unimib.it/francesca-mattassoglio

Alice Mazzucchelli

Alice Mazzucchelli Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). She is a Temporary Lecturer in Marketing Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Milano-Bicocca. She is also involved in several research projects, and her research is accomplished in collaboration with different national and international research groups. Her research interests include social media marketing, digital transformation, knowledge management, innovation management, and entrepreneurship
https://www.unimib.it/alice-mazzucchelli

Gabriele Nuzzo

Gabriele Nuzzo is Associate Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) where he lectures Commercial Law and Comparative Company Law. He holds a Ph.D. in Commercial Law at University of Catania. He is member of the editorial board of Italian Law Reviews in the field of Company Law, Financial Markets, Banking Law and Maritime Law. He is Research Fellow at Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany)
https://www.unimib.it/gabriele-nuzzo

Nadia Olivero

Nadia Olivero is Associate Professor in Marketing Management. She holds a PhD in Consumer Psychology from University College London. Her research as Principal Investigator on 'Consumer Experience and Retail Techologies' and ' Consumer Centred Design' has been awarded by the European Commission under the Marie Curie Program and by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for UK Retail Innovation. She has been the coordinator of a research unit for ministerially funded research on Digital Piracy and Consumer Privacy.
https://www.unimib.it/nadia-olivero

Edoardo Ongaro

Edoardo Ongaro is Professor of Public Management at The Open University (UK). His research interests are in the area of public management, public policy and administration, comparative public administration/comparative analysis of public management reform, strategic management in public services organisations, organisation of the public sector, management and governance of European Union institutions and multi-level frameworks of governance and intergovernmental relations.
https://www.open.ac.uk/people/eeo33

Laura Pagani

Laura Pagani is Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics of University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Her current research interests are in applied microeconometrics, education, gender and labour economics.
https://www.unimib.it/laura-pagani

Daniela Pianezzi

Daniela Pianezzi is lecturer of management accounting at Essex Business School (UK). She graduated with a PhD in Management from the Sant' Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (Italy). Her research interests are in the areas of ethics and accountability, social accounting and sustainability and migration management
https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/piane86603/daniela-pianezzi

Mariarita Pierotti

Mariarita Pierotti is Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Pisa (Italy). She holds a Ph.D. in Business Information System at Luiss University and a Degree in Business Administration from Pisa University. Her research focuses are on accounting themes, in particular she is interested in the relation between corporate social responsibility and earnings management, and financial distress studies focused on accounting-based prediction models.
https://unimap.unipi.it/cercapersone/dettaglio.php?ri=94009

Edoardo Raffiotta

Edoardo Carlo Raffiotta is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Milano–Bicocca (Italy). He previously taught at the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Bologna (Italy). Expert in the legal profiles of technology and artificial intelligence with particular attention to its use in the development of public services.
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/edoardo.raffiotta/cv-en

Laura Resmini

Laura Resmini is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Business and Law of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Her research focuses on the impact of global phenomena on territorial socio-economic systems, with special emphasis on foreign direct investments and global production networks led by MNEs.
https://www.unimib.it/laura-santa-resmini

Monica Rossolini

Monica Rossolini is Associate Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). She holds a Ph.D. in Banking and Finance from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a Master in Corporate Banking from the University of Parma. Her research interests and publications include fields such as SMEs financing, fintech, sustainability and financial literacy.
https://www.unimib.it/monica-rossolini

Alessandro Sancino

Alessandro Sancino is Associate Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) with expertise in public and non-profit management, leadership for social impact, social innovation, critical management studies and democratic and cooperative governance. He also serves as faculty member at The Open University in UK, and at the University of Italian Switzerland. His research interests are in the areas of community cooperative; public value; governance of cities; leadership for social impact; co-governance and deliberative democracy.
https://www.unimib.it/alessandro-angelo-sancino

Iulia Siedschlag

Iulia Siedschlag is Associate Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). She leads the ESRI’s research on Competitiveness, Trade and FDI. Her research focuses on economic growth and competitiveness in the context of international and European integration.
https://www.esri.ie/people/iulia-siedschlag