Phd in MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND
INNOVATION

email: angelomaria.petroni@uniroma1.it
phone: +39 064546891
building: Edificio CU002
room: Stanza n. 14 - III piano

Angelo M. Petroni was born in 1956 in Montefalco, in Umbria. He graduated from the University of Pisa and received his doctorate from Université Catholique de Louvain.
He has been Secretary General of the Aspen Institute Italia since 2007. He joined the Board of the Institute in 2003.
A full professor since 1994, Mr Petroni currently teaches Logic and Philosophy of Science at La Sapienza University of Rome where he also holds the chair in Public Management. He previously held the chair of Epistemology of Human Sciences at the University of Bologna. He has taught at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and has been visiting professor at many different universities.
From 2001 to 2006, he was Director General of the National School of Public Administration of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, by joint appointment of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister.
From 2010 to 2012, he was President of the Board of “UniTelma Sapienza”, an on-line University.
Since 1988, he has been a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Mr Petroni belongs or has belonged to a number of organizations, foundations and journals, including Logic and Philosophy of Science, Mind and Society, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Procesos de Mercato, Centro di Ricerca e Documentazione Luigi Einaudi, Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Fondazione Aurelio Peccei, Fondazione NovaResPublica, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Fondazione per l’Innovazione tecnologica, Fondazione Italia-USA, National Center for Business Ethics, Loyola University. From 1984 to 2004 he was editor-in-chief of Biblioteca della libertà. From 1985 to 1990 he was an editor at Il Mulino. From 1990 to 2002 he was a member of the editorial board of the journal International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
Mr Petroni is also a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Istituto di Bologna as well as of the Spanish Academia de Ciencias Morales Y Politicas. He was once on the boards of New York’s Foundation for Italian Art and Culture and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. He held the position of President of the Fondazione Internazionale Premio “Galileo Galilei” of the Italian Rotary Club from 2005 to 2010.
From 2003 to 2012, he was member of the executive board of the Italian public broadcasting company, RAI. He was previously a member of the Italian Encyclopedia Institute’s executive board as well.
From 2000 to 2002, he sat on the Scientific Council of the Italian Industrialists’ Organization’s Research Center, and from 2000 to 2008 he was a Board Member of the Compagnia di San Paolo di Torino.