Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies - Notable Alumni and Faculty

Notable Alumni and Faculty

Faculty and Alumni of note include:

• Giuliano Amato, Prime Minister of Italy ( 1992–1993 and 2000–2001), Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution and headed the Amato Group.
• Paolo Emilio Taviani, Italian Minister of Defence (1953-1958), Italian Minister of the Interior (1962-1963, 1963-1968, 1973-1974)
• Antonio Maccanico, Minister of Communications (1996-1998), Minister for Institutional Reforms (1999-2001)
• Giovanni Pieraccini, Minister of Public Affairs (1963-1964), Minister of Economic Affairs (1964-1965), Minister of Merchant Fleet (1973-1974), Minister of Scientific Research (1974)
• Carlo Smuraglia, parliament deputy and senator at the Senate of the Republic (Italy)
• Antonio Cassese, first President of the International Criminal Tribunal For the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)(1993–1997), in 2004 appointed by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to be the Chairperson for the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur
• Sabino Cassese, Professor of Administrative Law and a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy
• Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, president of Finmeccanica the largest hi-tech industrial group based in Italy and the one of the largest defense industry conglomerates in the world
• Enrico Letta, elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party (Italy), Prime Minister of Italy (2013-)
• Maria Chiara Carrozza, Professor of Engineering at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Minister of Education, Universities and Research (2013-)
• Antonio Maccanico, number of times appointed as Minister in the Italian Republic
• Marcello Spatafora, Italian Ambassador to Malaysia (1980–1986), Ambassador to Malta (1986–1989), Ambassador to Australia (1993–1997), Ambassador to Albania (1997–1999), Chief of the Italian delegation responsible for organizing the country’s presidency of the European Economic Community (1989–1990), as of 2000 Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, President of the United Nations Security Council in 2007
• Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and writer
• Vittorio Grilli, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (government of Mario Monti), part of the Board of Directors of Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, and board-member of the respected European think-thank Bruegel (institution)
• Riccardo Varaldo, economist and holder of the prestigious Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica i.e. Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, President of Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, Member of many Ministries' entities, President of the Società Italiana di Marketing
• Nicola Bellini, economist and Director of IRPET (Istituto Regionale per la Programmazione Economica della Toscana)
• Giovanni Dosi, economist, co-director of the specific task forces on industrial policy and intellectual property rights within the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, editor of the Oxford University Press Journal Continental Europe of Industrial and Corporate Change
• Stefan Collignon, professor of political economy, International Chief Economist of the Centro Europa Ricerche, founder of Euro Asia Forum at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. Previously, he was Centennial Professor of European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2001–2005) and Visiting Professor at Harvard University (2005–2007, also taught at University of Hamburg, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, College of Europe and at the Free University of Berlin. Also served as Deputy Director General for Europe in the Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany) 1999 - 2000.
• Haakon Faste, American designer and professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Marco Frey, Professor of Business Administration and Director of the Institute of Management at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and Research Director at Centre for Research on Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy at Bocconi University
• Fabio Iraldo, Professor of Business Administration, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy and Director of Research Center at Bocconi University
• Alberto Di Minin, Professor of Business Administration, Institute of Management at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and BRIE - Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, University of California, Berkeley
• Francesca Gino, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
• Francesco Strazzari, Professor of Political Science, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
• Antonio L'Abbate, Professor of Medical Sciences at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and together with Giovanni Dosi one of the top Italian Scientists
• Giorgio Buttazzo, Professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Real-Time Systems (Springer) and Chair of the restigious IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems
• Mikhail Anufriev, Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam
• Anna Bassi, Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Michele Berardi, Professor of Economics, University of Manchester
• Matteo Barigozzi, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Carolina Castaldi, Professor of Economics, University of Utrecht
• Marco Giarratana, Professor of Business Administration, Charles III University of Madrid
• Mauro Napoletano, Professor of Economics, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
• Cinzia Daraio, Professor of Business Administration, University of Bologna