Secretary General of the Foundation from 1 January 2002 to 15 October 2020.

Cerreto Sannita (BN), 4 December 1936 – Milan 24 November 2024.

 

He graduated in Law from the Università Cattolica in 1958 (110/110 cum laude) and dedicated himself to the study of social sciences applied to management. He was an assistant and then lecturer in organisational behaviour at the CUOA (University Centre for Business Organisation) in Padua in the 1960s and lecturer in Organisational Sociology in the Faculty of Political Science at the Catholic University from 1986 to 2010. He has carried out social research in contemporary organisations, contributing to the birth and development of ‘organisational aesthetics’ as a distinct field of enquiry within organisational studies. He has published numerous essays and volumes, in Italian and English, on these topics (go to website).

 

From 1961 to 1970 he devoted himself to research, management training and management consulting, working mainly within consulting firms (in particular, Pietro Gennaro & Associati and the Boston Consulting Group).
From 1970 to 1977 he worked in companies, with direct managerial responsibilities: he was director of the UPIM network, within the Rinascente group, from 1970 to1 1974; from 1974 to 1977 he was co-general manager of an industrial conglomerate.
From 1977 to 2004, he led ISTUD (Institute of Management Studies) as Director General.

From January 2002 to 2020 he served as Secretary General of the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice.

 

To him we owe the ‘return’ of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding at Cana in the Palladian refectory of the Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio, which inaugurated the start of the digitisation of the Foundation’s heritage, with the creation of the ARCHiVe project.
During his term of office, the Manica Lunga Library, designed by Michele De Lucchi in the convent dormitory and dedicated to the history of art, was built; the
Vittore Branca’ residence was opened, recovering a building on the island, which allows young researchers and established scholars to stay and study in San
Giorgio; the Labyrinth dedicated to Borges, designed by architect Randoll Coate, was built

 

It was also during this period that a series of new cultural projects, including The Dialogues of San Giorgio, which promote discussions between experts from different disciplines on issues of great political social and cultural relevance. The most recent and significant realisation is the transformation of the island’s former ‘squero’ into a music auditorium that has become one of the most fascinating spaces on the Venetian cultural scene.