Luciano Renato SEGRETO

Luciano Segreto is a Full Professor of Economic History at the University of Florence, Adjunct Professor of Corporate Governance at the Bocconi University of Milan since 2011, and Permanent Visiting Professor at Technical University of Gdansk since 2015. Prof Segreto has given lectures and seminars in about 40 European universities in the framework of the Erasmus program. He has been a visiting professor at Université Paris XI (2003-2010), the Kozminski University of Warsaw (2007), the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (2011-13), and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon (2013, 2014, and 2019). In China, he has been visiting professor and given lectures at the Shanghai Normal University (2007-2018) and the Tongji University (2018-19).

Since 2008, he is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme of Bordeaux (France). Since 2014, he is a member of the Board of Patrons of «My Europe», an international, non-partisan, independent charity that unites students, politicians, business leaders, academics and journalists in workshops all over Europe

His main interests are the history of family capitalism, international affairs, banking history and corporate governance in a historical perspective. He is involved in international research programs dealing with the trade of commodities in the Baltic area between the 19th and 20th century, with particular reference to timber and cereals.