PALEARI Stefano

Stefano Paleari
Full Professor in Finance
Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1990: Graduated Summa Cum Laude in Nuclear Engineering at the Polytechnic School of Milan.
1996: Assistant Professor of Managerial Engineering at the University of Bergamo;
1998: Associate Professor of Industrial Organization at the Polytechnic School of Milan;
2001: Full Professor of Finance at the University of Bergamo.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
From 2006 to 2017, Scientific Director of the ICCSAI (International Center for Competitiveness Studies in the Aviation Industry).
From 2009 to 2012, External examiner in the MSc in Air Transport Management at the Department of Air Transport of the Cranfield University (UK).
From 2009, Airneth Academic Fellow and member of the Airneth Scientific Board, an international group of the most representative academic researchers in Air Transportation.
From 2009 to 2015, Rector of the University of Bergamo.
From April 2011 to September 2013, Secretary General of the CRUI (the Italian Council of the Rectors of Italian Universities).
From September 2013 to September 2015, President of the CRUI (the Italian Council of the Rectors of Italian Universities).
From April 2013 to April 2017, Board Member of the EUA (European University Association).
From October 2015, Scientific Director of the Research group HERE, a think tank on Higher Education and Science Policy of the University of Bergamo, in collaboration with the CRUI (the Italian Council of the Rectors of Italian Universities).
From January 2016, Member of the Steering Committee of the Istituto Toniolo, founder and promoter of the Sacred Heart University of Milan.
From July 2016, Member of the Coordinating Council for Higher Education of Portugal, an advisory board of the Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Form November 2016 to May 2018, Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the Human Technopole.
From May 2017 to December 2019, Special Commissioner of Alitalia, nominated by the Ministry of Economic Development.

VISITING PERIODS
From April to June 2006, Visiting Professor at the CASS Business School, London.
In June 2016, Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

HONORS AND AWARDS
In 2015 he was awarded the honorary title of Grand Officer of the Italian Republic.
In 2016, he was awarded an honorary degree in Economics at the “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria.
In 2016, he was awarded by the Lombardy Region the Rosa Camuna Award for distinguished service for the economic, social and cultural development of the Region.
In 2016 he was awarded the Pearson Prize for the Best Paper in Financial Management, for the paper “How Do Underwriters Select Peers When Valuing IPOs?”, co-authored with Andrea Signori and Silvio Vismara.
In 2019 he was nominated member of the Pontifical Council for Culture by Pope Francis.

TEACHING ACTIVITY
Finance I (Corporate Finance), in the MSc in Managerial Engineering;
Finance II (Financial Markets and Business Valuation), in the MSc in Managerial Engineering;
Finance (Corporate Finance and Financial Markets), in the PhD Program in Economics and Technology Management, and in the PhD Program in Managerial Engineering.
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MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS
Financial Economics: Initial Public Offerings, Business Groups, Business Valuation, Corporate Governance, New Technology Based Firms financing.
Air Transportation: Pricing Strategies, Connectivity, Competition, Regulation.
Higher Education: Governance models, Financing mechanisms, Impact on regional development, New Technologies in Higher Educations, Internationalization, Academic Entrepreneurship