Stefano Rolando

Born in Milan (20.2.1948). Graduated in Unimi Political Science, specialized in Business Planning and Strategy at the School of Business Management of Bocconi University.

Currently

In the university field

• Confirmed Associate Professor (Economics and Business Management), Professor of Public Policies for Communications and Theory and Techniques of Public Communication in the CDCs of the Faculty of Communication and Performing Arts of the IULM University (in office since 2001, for suitability in competition Faculty of Economics, Ca' Foscari University, Venice).
• Scientific Director Master's Degree in Strategic Communication Management for Society and Policy (MASPI, since 2002).
• He attends the Department of Business, Law, Economics and Consumer Behaviour - Business, Law, Economics and Consumption

In the institutional field

• He is a member of the Regional Communications Committee (Co.re.com) of Lombardy.
• He was president of the Brand Milano Committee (Milan Municipality) from 2012 to 2015; from May 2016 transformed into Brand Milano Association (with coordination responsibility).
• He has been a member (since February 2018) of the working group of the SCM Superior Council of the Magistracy for the profiling of the guidelines on information and communication of the judiciary.

Other university experiences

• From 2003 to October 2010, with the delegation of the Rector for Institutional Relations of the University; from 15 June 2016, the Rector Prof. Mario Negri again conferred on him, together with the delegation of relations with the CRUI.
• From 2004 to October 2010, he was Secretary General of the Fondazione Università IULM (applied research; partner Assolombarda, Chamber of Commerce, Union of Commerce, Province of Milan, Lombardy Region).
• In 2007, he founded the IULM School of Communication (post-graduate training) of which he was scientific director until 2010.
• He has held courses in international universities (George Washington University, Sao Paulo, Brazil and for two years 1998-2000 in Lugano, head of teaching of institutional languages).
• From 1993 to 2000, IULM University awarded him contract teaching on the subject of "Communication of complex organisations".

He has developed a previous managerial career, mainly in the communications system, in the institutional and business fields.

In the enterprise sector

• Director of Rai-Radiotelevisione italiana (1977-1982, assistant to presidents Paolo Grassi and Sergio Zavoli); responsibility for institutional relations.
• General Manager of Istituto Luce-Italnoleggio cinematografico (detached from Rai, 1982-1985): to reorganize production and distribution structures, requalify production and commercial profiles, launch historical archive organization.
• Central Director of the Olivetti Group (External, International and Cultural Relations - 1995-1996), in the phase of transformation from information technology to telecommunications.
• Director of SIAE (1985-1993).

In the institutional field

• Director General and Head of the Information and Publishing Department at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (1985-1995), confirmed by ten governments.
• General Manager of the Lombardy Regional Council (1997-2001).
• Secretary General of the Conference of Presidents of the Italian Regional Assemblies (2001-2006).
• Communication Adviser to the Ministers for Education (1999-2000) and the Civil Service (2003-2004). Counsellor for Cultural Economy to the Minister for Cultural Heritage (July 2007- May 2008). Responsible for research programmes for the Ministers of the Interior (1999), Innovation (2003) and Foreign Affairs (2004). He has recently carried out research for Scuola Superiore Magistratura.

Other:

• From 4 October 2007 to 2010, he was a member of the Superior Council of Communications (Ministry of Communications).
• From 2006 to 2010, for two terms, he was the Italian representative (Min. of Foreign Affairs) in the UNESCO-BRESCE Scientific Council.
• Advisor to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers for the Action Plan for the constitution of the Adriatic-Ionian Macroregion (Nov. 2013-Feb. 2014).

With cultural and civil commitment and not in paid form is:

• president of the Club of Venice (coordination responsible for communication governments and EU institutions, since 1986, secretariat to the EU Council);
• president of the Francesco Saverio Nitti Foundation (Melfi);
• member of the Scientific Committee of the Labsus Association (Active Citizenship) chaired by Prof. G. Arena (Rome);
• member of the Board of Directors and of the scientific committee of the "Paolo Grassi" Foundation (Milan);
• member of the scientific committee of the "Sandro Pertini" Foundation (Florence);
• vice-president of Eurovisioni, annual forum Villa Medici in Rome on European audiovisual (president 1992-1994);
• member of the General Council Aspen Institute Italy (since 1990);
• member of the Orientation Council of Aberje (Association of Business and Institutional Communicators of Brazil);
• president of Cantiere delle Ragioni, Rome since 2017.

Freelance journalist

a member of the Order since 1970, has written in newspapers and periodicals, including Sole-24 ore, Corriere della Sera, Repubblica Affari&Finanza, Europa, Finanza&Mercati; and in specialist magazines Economia della cultura, Problemi dell'informazione, Comunicazione politica, Micro&Macro Marketing. Since 1998 he has been the editor-in-chief of the Italian Public Communication Magazine;

He publishes opinions in the column Good and bad politics in the online daily Linkiesta and in the online weekly ArcipelagoMilano.

He is a member of the management committee of the monthly magazine Mondoperaio (directed by Luigi Covatta).

More detailed information and communications at: www.stefanorolando.it/

Honours

• 1985 Commendatore al merito della Repubblica italiana (motu proprio presidente Pertini)
• 1990 Professor hc Law and Social Sciences at the Moròn University of Buenos Aires
• 1991 Officier de l'Ordre du Mérite of the French Republic
• 1993 Knight of the Great Cross of Merit of the Italian Republic (Ciampi government).
• 2007 Official of the Republic of Romania for the cultural and educational relations between the two countries.

MAIN AREAS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

• Economics and communication management of complex organizations
• Economics of culture
• Public communication (institutional, political, social)
• Business communication
• Public policies, media and communications
• History and sociology of identity processes and public branding
• Administration Sciences

Although IULM University takes all necessary care to ensure the publication of correct, updated and complete information, it is not responsible for the contents of the curricula published online on the Portal www.iulm.it. The holder of this curriculum vitae is the exclusive guarantor and responsible for the correctness and truthfulness of the information contained therein.

• Brand Milano - Atlante della nuova narrativa identitaria (a cura di) – Prefazioni di G. Sala e G.L. Vago - promosso da Associazione Brand Milano (Mimesis, 2017).
• Né per lucro, né per inganno - La comunicazione che servirebbe ai cittadini per arginare l’epoca della post-verità (Lumi Edizioni, 2017).
• Magistrati e cittadini – Identità, ruolo e immagine sociale dei magistrati italiani – Rapporto per Scuola Superiore della Magistratura, con Nadio Delai, prefazioni di V. Onida, G. Silvestri e G. Legnini (Franco Angeli 2016).
• L’insufficienza riformatrice – con Giovanni Pieraccini (Pezzini editore, 2016).
• Civismo politico – Percorsi, conquiste, limiti (Rubbettino, 2015)
• Citytelling – Raccontare le identità urbane. Prefazione di G.L. Vago (EGEA, 2015)
• Comunicazione, potere e cittadini. Tra propaganda e partecipazione (EGEA, 2014).
• Etica e comunicazione (con testi di Carlo Maria Martini) – (Lupetti, 2013).
• La buonapolitica - Cantiere Milano-Italia, prefazioni di F. Barca e G. Pisapia  (Rubbettino 2012).
• Due arcobaleni nel cielo di Milano (e altre storie), con Giuliano Pisapia (Bompiani, 2012).
• Teoria e tecniche della comunicazione pubblica – Terza e aggiornata edizione del manuale (ETAS, 2011).
• Paolo Grassi. Una biografia tra teatro, musica e televisione -  coautore (con C. Fontana, A. Bentoglio, P. Merli) - (Skira 2011).
• La comunicazione pubblica per una grande società (ETAS, 2010).
• Economia e gestione della comunicazione delle organizzazioni complesse – Gli ambiti di convergenza tra comunicazione di impresa e comunicazione pubblica (CEDAM, 2010).
• L’Aquila e il terremoto – Coordinatore del project work del Master MASPI IULM – fascicolo monografico di Rivista italiana di comunicazione pubblica, n. 39/2010 (Franco Angeli).
• Politiche pubbliche per le comunicazioni (coordinatore – ETAS, 2009).
• Una voce poco fa. Politica media e comunicazione nella vicenda del Partito Socialista italiano dal 1976 al 1994 (Marsilio, 2009).
• Le nostre storie sono i nostri orti, ma anche i nostri ghetti (con Marco Pannella, Bompiani, 2009).
• Brand Milano - Come e perché promuovere l’attrattività di Milano (coordinatore - Franco Angeli, 2008).
• Transmitting Europe. From great values to small interstices – in Democracy and globalisation (Glocus, 2008).
• Il mio viaggio nel secolo cattivo. Colloquio con Maria Luigia Nitti Baldini (Bompiani, 2008).
• Quarantotto - Argomenti per un bilancio generazionale (Bompiani, 2008).
• Il fattore immagine nelle relazioni tra Italia e Romania (coordinatore F.Angeli, 2007).
• Considerazioni finali sull’attività legislativa del sistema regionale in materia di Comunicazioni in ‘I tre codici' della società dell’informazione: amministrazione digitale, comunicazioni elettroniche, contenuti audiovisivi’, a cura di P. Costanzo, G. De Minico e R. Zaccaria (Edizioni Giappichelli 2006).
• La democrazia partecipativa in Europa e in Italia (coordinatore, con Rappresentanza UE in Italia, F. Angeli 2006).
• Rapporto al Ministro Funzione Pubblica sulla comunicazione istituzionale in Italia (DFP, 2005).
• La comunicazione di pubblica utilità (F. Angeli, 2004, due volumi).
• E-democracy (con A. Papini, nel Rapporto sull’innovazione tecnologica in Italia, introduzione Lucio Stanca (MIT, 2004).
• Teoria e tecniche della comunicazione pubblica (Etas, 2003, prima edizione 2001).
• Per essere Parlamenti (co-autore, Guerini, 2003).
• La scuola e la comunicazione-Rapporto al Ministro della Pubblica Istruzione – (F. Angeli, 2000).
• La capitale umorale-Scritti su Milano (Milanometropoli, 1999).
• La customer satisfaction nel settore pubblico (con G.P. Fabris, F.Angeli 1999).
• Italia-Europa, identità e comunicazione (con E. Lio, F. Angeli, 1999).
• Un Paese spiegabile (ETAS, 1998).
• Un’altra idea di questo Stato (Costa&Nolan 1996).
• La grande mela e altri frutti proibiti-Viaggio nell’America dei new media (Armando 1995).
• Rapporto sulla comunicazione pubblica in Italia, prefazione di G. De Rita (per Cnel, Bibliografica 1995).
• Comunicazione pubblica – Modernizzazione dello Stato, diritti del cittadino (Sole-24 ore, 1992).
• Lo stato della pubblicità di Stato (Sole-24 ore,1990).
• Il principe e la parola (prefazione di G. Amato, Comunità, 1987).
• Quella parte di cinema chiamata televisione (con V. Giacci, Guanda 1981).

Although IULM University takes all necessary care to ensure the publication of correct, updated and complete information, it is not responsible for the contents of the curricula published online on the Portal www.iulm.it. The holder of this curriculum vitae is the exclusive guarantor and responsible for the correctness and truthfulness of the information contained therein.

COURSES 2021/2022

Bachelor of Science in Corporate Communication and Public Relations

- Laboratorio di comunicazione pubblica

- Public Branding

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising

- Public and politic communication

COURSES 2020/2021

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising

- Public and political communication

- Public branding

COURSES 2019/2020

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising

-Public communication and policy

-Public branding

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

-Theory and technique of public communication

COURSES 2018/2019

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

- Theory and techniques of public communication

- Public Branding

COURSES 2017/2018

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

- Theory and technique of public communication

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising

- Theory and techniques of public communication

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising (in common with the Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication)

- Public policies for communications

COURSES 2016/2017

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

- Theory and technique of public communication

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising

- Theory and techniques of public communication

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising (in common with the Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication)

- Public policies for communications

COURSES 2015/2016

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

- Theory and technique of public communication

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising (in common with the Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication)

- Public policies for communications

COURSES 2014/2015

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

- Theory and technique of public communication

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising (in common with the Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication)

- Public policies for communications

COURSES 2013/2014

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising

- Theory and techniques of public communication

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

- Theory and technique of public communication

Degree Course in Public Relations and Business Communication -

Public Policies for Communications (in common with all 1st level Degree Courses of the Faculty of Communication)

COURSES 2012/2013

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising -

Theory and techniques of public communication

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

- Theory and technique of public communication

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising

- Public Policy for Communications

COURSES 2011/2012

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising

-Theory and techniques of public communication

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

- Theory and technique of public communication

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media and Advertising

- Public Policy for Communications

COURSES 2010/2011

Degree Course in Public Relations and Business Communication

- Theory and Technique of Public Communication

- Public Policies for Communications -

Degree Course in Communication, Media and Advertising

- Theory and Techniques of Public Communication