Governance of the Academy

The President of Columbia University serves as President of the Academy; the post of Honorary President is held by the President of the Republic of Italy. The Chairman of the Board is the Provost of Columbia University. The Director is the Head of the Academy. 

The Board of Guarantors is comprised of distinguished representatives of Italian and American cultural, academic and business life; six are selected by Columbia University and another six by the Government of Italy. It advises the Director on the management of the Academy.

Honorary President of the Academy
Sergio Mattarella, President of the Italian Republic

President of the Academy
Jennifer L. Mnookin, President of Columbia University

Chair of the Board of Guarantors
Angela V. Olinto, Provost of Columbia University

Director Ad Interim
Barbara Faedda, Executive Director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University

Board of Guarantors

Guarantors of the Italian Academy should be contacted through their home institutions only, not via the Academy. (Please click on names for an extended biography.) 

Appointed by Columbia University

Daniele Bodini, Chairman Emeritus, American Continental Properties Group
Luca Carloni Professor of Computer Science; Chair, Department of Computer Science
Alessandra Casella Professor of Economics and Political Science
Michael Cole Howard McP. Davis Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Despina Kontos Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Radiological Sciences (in Radiology and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center)
Nadia Urbinati Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory
 

Appointed by the Government of Italy

Alain Elkann, Writer, Journalist
Marco Giudici, Former Director of RAI Italia
Claudio Pagliara, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York
Pierluigi Paracchi, Chief Executive Officer, Genenta Science 
Marco Peronaci, Ambassador of Italy to the United States of America
Maria Luisa Rossi Hawkins, White House Correspondent, Mediaset

Senior Fellows

Qais al-Awqati, Robert F. Loeb Professor of Medicine and Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University
Enrico Arbarello, Ordinario di Geometria, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma
Richard Axel, Nobel Laureate and University Professor, Columbia University
Teodolinda Barolini, Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University
Lina Bolzoni, Ordinario di Letteratura Italiana, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Maria Luisa Catoni, Professor in Ancient Art History and Archaeology, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor Emerita of History, Columbia University
Paolo Galluzzi, Direttore dell’Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze
Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University
Eric Kandel, Nobel Laureate and University Professor, Columbia University
Jhumpa Lahiri, Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing, Barnard College
Edmund S. Phelps, Nobel Laureate and McVickar Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, Columbia University
Renzo Piano, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Genoa and Paris
Giacomo Rizzolatti, Direttore del Dipartimento di Neuroscienze ed ordinario di Fisiologia, Università di Parma
Salvatore Settis, Già Direttore della Scuola Normale Superiore ed ordinario di Storia dell’arte, Pisa
Nadia Urbinati, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies, Columbia University
Marina Warner, DBE, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London

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Carlo Ginzburg, Ordinario di storia delle culture europee, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa