Gianni Bonvicini

Gianni Bonvicini, expert in European issues and foreign policy, was born in Trento in 1943 and graduated in Political Science from the University of Florence in 1969. He is currently Scientific Advisor and Board Director’s member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), of which formerly he was Director (1987-2008) and Executive Vice President (2008-2017). He is a member of several cultural and research associations in Italy (among which, the Steering Committee, Comparative, European and International Legal Studies (CEILS), Law Faculty, Trento University; the Advisory Board of the School of International Studies, Trento University; the Reflection Group on EU policies of the Under Secretary of State Sandro Gozi; the Scientific Committee of the Bruno Visentini Foundation) and abroad. He is a columnist for various scientific publications, professional journals and newspapers. In 2010, he received the title of Commendatore, Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, for his services to his country and in 2013 the Honorary Membership of the European Journalist Association.
Posts held during his career include: President of the Trento Cultural Institute; member of the Special Commission on Universities and Scientific Research of the Municipality of Trento, the Steering Committee of the Trento Development Agency, the Board of the University of Trento; consultant to the Research Department of the Trentino Alto Adige Regional Government and the Trento Provincial Government; drafter of the foreign policy platform of the Ulivo coalition and advisor on Europe to former Prime Minister Romano Prodi (1995-96); Board member of the Trans European Policy Studies Association (1996-2017); chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Institute’s quarterly The International Spectator (2007-17). In his academic career he was, among other training and seminar’s activities, Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Roma Tre University (2011-14), and Visiting Professor in International relations at the Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center (1981-2000).