He was born in Vicenza, on 12 May 1959
University of Trento
Via Calepina, 14 Trento, 38122 Italy
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Paolo Collini graduated in Economics at the University Ca’ Foscari (Venice), he then attended a Master of Science in Business Administration at the Boston University School of Management and then a PhD course in Business Economics again at the University of Venice. He has been full Professor at the University of Trento since 2009 and he teaches Business Economics at the Department of Economics and Management.
He has been the Rector of the University of Trento since 1st April 2015, after seating in various institutional structures of the University of Trento. He has been Vice Rector since April 2013, Pro-rector for Teaching activities and as such, coordinator of the working team of the CRUI (Conference of the Rectors of the Italian Universities), on the topic “Inter-university and International Degree courses”. He has been a member of the Academic Senate for various mandates. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Economics between 2006 and 2012. Further, he has been the Director of the School of International studies and Vice Director of the Department of Computer science and Business Studies.
His academic career started in Venice, at Ca’ Foscari, in 1993, and it then continued thanks to various assignments in Italian and international universities, among which the Catholic University of Lille (IESEG School of Management), the Darthmouth College in New Hampshire (Tuck School), the Boston University (School of Management) and in Italy the Venice International University and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
From the point of view of his scientific career, he has been active in the European Accounting Association (EIASM member) since 1993, whose Board of Directors he has been a member between 2006 and 2012. He is a member of various national scientific associations, among which AIDEA (Italian Academy of Business Economics), SIDREA (Italian Society of Professors of Business Administration and Economics), SIR (Italian Society of the History of Business Administration) and AIDEA - Giovani (of which he has been President).
As for his scientific publishing activity, he has been a member of the Management Editorial Board of the European Accounting Review and of the Editorial board of the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal Management Control and he used to belong to the Scientific Committee of the Journal Performance & Management.
He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Competitiveness Forum of the Veneto Region (2007-2008). He is currently a member of the General Council of Fondazione CUOA – Business School, of the Editorial Board of the Trento Festival of Economics, and of the Local Council of Banca Intesa Sanpaolo for Trentino Alto Adige. He is also the Italian representative in the Council of the EUA and is a member of the joint committee the Ministry of Education, University and Research and the Italian Court of Auditors, representing the Ministry.
His mandate will expire on 31 March 2021.