Carmelo Marabello
Dean of Venice International University
Chair of the Academic Council 

Eileen Sweeney
Boston College

Stephen Nowicki
Duke University

Natalia Mazur
European University at St. Petersburg - EUSP

Annalisa Bonfiglio
IUSS School of Pavia

Bart Raymaekers
KU Leuven

Hans Van Ess
Ludwig Maximilians Universität

Caroline Levander
Rice University

Cem Güneri
Sabancı University

Robert Kotze
Stellenbosch University

Kinneret Lahad
Tel Aviv University

Alessio Cotugno
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Massimiliano Zattin
Università degli Studi di Padova

Maria Chiara Tosi
Università Iuav di Venezia

Lucia Visconti Parisio
Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca

Bianca Sulpasso
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata

T.B.C.
Université de Bordeaux

Pierre-Alexandre Bart
Université de Lausanne - UNIL

Kate Hext
University of Exeter

Maji Christine Rhee
Waseda University

Ming XU
Tsinghua University

Contact ad interim: Fabrizio Tuzi
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR

President
Umberto Vattani

Dean
Carmelo Marabello

Directors
James Keenan
Boston College

Nicola Torricella
Città Metropolitana di Venezia

Fabrizio Tuzi
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR

Giovanni Zanalda
Duke University

Oleg Kharkhordin
European University at St. Petersburg - EUSP

Riccardo Pietrabissa
IUSS School of Pavia

Severine Vermeire
KU Leuven

Bernd Huber
Ludwig Maximilians Universität - LMU

Yusuf Leblebici
Sabancı University

Sibusiso Moyo
Stellenbosch University

Milette Shamir
Tel Aviv University

Carla Andreani
Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"

Tiziana Lippiello
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Daniela Mapelli
Università degli Studi di Padova

Maria Luce Frezzotti
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Margherita Turvani
Università Iuav di Venezia

Dean Lewis
Université de Bordeaux

Marianne Schmid Mast
Université de Lausanne - UNIL

Richard Follett
University of Exeter

GEMMA Masahiko
Waseda University

Caroline Levander
Rice University

LIU Shuming
Tsinghua University

Roberto Ragazzoni
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - INAF

Ambassador Umberto Vattani is the President of Venice International University
since 2001.

Curriculum vitae:

Umberto Vattani was born in Skopje, Macedonia, on 5 December 1938.

He studied in France, Great Britain and the United States (with a Fulbright Scholarship).
He graduated in Law (1960) and in Political Sciences (1962) at the University of Rome, La Sapienza.
After a spell at the Bank of Italy - Department for Research and International Economics (1961), he entered the Diplomatic Service.

From 1963 to 1974, he held successive posts as: 

Member of the Italian Mission to the United Nation, New York;
Member of the Italian Mission to the OECD, Paris;
Counselor at the Italian Embassy in London.

From 1975 to 1978 he was:
Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and later
Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.

After a few years at the Italian Embassy in London as Deputy Head of Mission, he was appointed
Diplomatic Advisor to the Prime Minister and Personal Representative (Sherpa) for the G7 Summits (1988-1992).

From 1992 to 1996:
Italian Ambassador in the Federal Republic of Germany

From 1997 to 2001:
Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

From 2001 to 2004:
Italian Permanent Representative to the European Union in Brussels

January 2004:
Second Appointment as Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

From 2005 to 2011:
President of the Italian Trade Commission – ICE

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Honorary Citizen of the City of Skopje, Macedonia
Ehrenbürger of the University of Bonn
Honorary Member of the Academic Senate of the Freie Universität Berlin
Member of the Board of Trustees and Honorary Professor of Tongji University, Shanghai
President of the Italy-Japan Foundation