Alberto Felice De Toni

Italian academic and engineer (born 1955)

Alberto Felice De Toni
Alberto Felice De Toni in April 2017

Mayor of Udine
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 April 2023
Preceded by	Pietro Fontanini
Scientific Director of CUOA Business School
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 January 2019
President of the CRUI Foundation
In office 20 February 2019 – 19 May 2021
Preceded by	Gaetano Manfredi
Succeeded by	Ferruccio Resta
Rector of the University of Udine
In office 1 October 2013 – 30 September 2019
Preceded by	Cristiana Compagno
Succeeded by	Roberto Pinton

Personal details
Born	(1955-06-27) 27 June 1955 (age 68) Curtarolo, Italy
Political party	Centre-left independent
Education	PhD in Industrial Innovation Sciences
Alma mater	University of Padua
Profession	University professor
Website	Official website

Alberto Felice De Toni (born 27 June 1955) is an Italian professor and engineer, current Mayor of Udine.

Full professor of economic-managerial engineering, he is Scientific Director of CUOA Business School^[1] and President of the Steering Committee of Scuola Superiore ad Ordinamento Speciale della Difesa.^[2]

Studies and academic career

After his scientific high school diploma, he graduated magna cum laude in 1980 in Chemical Engineering at the University of Padua. He worked at ENI Ricerche in San Donato Milanese and other industrial groups until 1983, when he enrolled in the first cycle of the PhD in Industrial Innovation Sciences at the University of Padua. He obtained the PhD in 1986 with excellent judgment.

In 1987 he became a Researcher in Economic-Management Engineering at the University of Udine, where he became associate professor in 1992 and full professor in 2000.

At the same University, he was President of the Degree Course in Management Engineering from 2000 to 2006 and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 2006 to 2012.^[3]

He was Rector of the University of Udine from 2013 to 2019.^[4]

From 2015 to 2018 he was Secretary General of the National Conference of Italian University Rectors^[5] and from 2019 to 2021 he was President of the CRUI Foundation.^[6]

As part of The Magnificent Meetings - promoted by CRUI – held on 29 and 30 June 2017 in Udine, on the occasion of the Conoscenza in Festa event, he organized with the sponsorship of MIUR the G7 University - Education for All. During this event, the representatives of more than 170 universities and organizations from Europe, America and Asia have developed the so-called "Udine G7 University Manifesto".^[7]

Other assignments

He is the President of the Independent Evaluation Body of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità,^[8] a former president of the evaluation body of the University of Palermo^[9] and ordinary member of the Academia Europaea.

He has been Vice President of Trieste AREA Science Park from 2002 to 2006 and President of the Agency for Economic Development of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Mountain from 2005 to 2010.^[10]

He was President of AIIG - Italian Association of Management Engineering in the statutory two-year period from 2009 to 2011.^[11]

In the context of MIUR, he has been President of the National Commission for the Reorganization of Technical and Professional Education from 2007 to 2011.^[12]

He was President of the CINECA Evaluation Body from 2018 to 2021.^[13]

From 2019 to 2021, he was member of the Strategic Steering Committee of the EUI - European University Institute.^[14]

Publications

De Toni amassed over 380 scientific publications in the field of Management Engineering with a focus on operations management, innovation management and complexity management. Some of his publications are:

De Toni A. F. (2011), International Operations Management. Lessons in Global Business, Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group: London (UK), pp. 288, ISBN 978-1409403296.
De Toni A. F., Tonchia S. (1998), Manufacturing flexibility: a literature review, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 36, n. 6, pp. 1587–1617.
Battistella C., De Toni A. F., De Zan G. & Pessot E. (2017), Cultivating business model agility through focused capabilities: a multiple case study, Journal of Business Research, Vol. 73, pp. 65–82.
De Toni A. F., Pessot E. (2020), Investigating organisational learning to master project complexity: An embedded case study , Journal of Business Research, available online.
De Toni A. F., Siagri R. & Battistella C. (2021), Corporate foresight: Anticipating the Future, Revised Edition, Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group: London (UK), pp. 234, ISBN 978-0367567460.

References

^ "Pubblicati i risultati della survey CUOA sullo stato di salute delle". Pubblicati i risultati della survey CUOA sullo stato di salute delle (in Italian). 18 December 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^ "De Toni nel comitato per l'Università della Difesa | Il Friuli". www.ilfriuli.it (in Italian). 23 November 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
^ "Alberto Felice De Toni eletto preside di Ingegneria". qui.uniud.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^ "Università Udine, De Toni oggi rettore - Friuli Venezia Giulia". ANSA.it (in Italian). 2013-10-01. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^ "Università: De Toni (Udine) segretario generale Crui - Friuli Venezia Giulia". ANSA.it (in Italian). 2015-11-26. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^ "Alberto De Toni è il nuovo Presidente della Fondazione CRUI". Fondazione CRUI (in Italian). 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^ "G7 UNIVERSITY - CRUI - Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università italiane". www.crui.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^ "OIV – Amministrazione Trasparente" (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^ "Composizione Nucleo di Valutazione Unipa".
^ "Agemont, De Toni nuovo presidente - Messaggero Veneto". Archivio - Messaggero Veneto (in Italian). 14 July 2005. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^ "Alberto Felice De Toni presidente degli Ingegneri gestionali italiani". qui.uniud.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^ "Comunicati stampa". archivio.pubblica.istruzione.it. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^ "Università: De Toni presidente organismo vigilanza Cineca - Friuli V. G." ANSA.it (in Italian). 2018-07-20. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
^ "De Toni entra nello Strategic Standing Committee | Il Friuli". www.ilfriuli.it (in Italian). 3 January 2019. Retrieved 2020-06-27.