Luciano Renato SEGRETO

Professor Luciano Segreto teaches at Natolin a course titled "Europe and the Global Economy from the Industrial Revolution to the Internet." The course will survey the evolution of Europe in the global economy from the late eighteenth century to the present. It will reflect on the key moments that have shaped, over the long term, the modern economic world from the viewpoint of technology, business, and finance, with the State playing the role of a very active player and not of a referee.

Professor Segreto is a Full Professor of Economic History at the University of Florence, Adjunct Professor of Corporate Governance and Italian Business History at the Bocconi University of Milan since 2011, and Full Professor of European Economic Integration and the Internationalization of the Firm at Gdansk University of Technology 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).

From 2008 to 2021, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Bordeaux (France), and since 2014 he has been 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. From 2008 to 2021, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Bordeaux (France), and since 2014 he has been a member of the Board of patrons of «My Europe». He is a member of the scientific committee of "Revista de Historia Industrial y Empresarial",  "Studi Storici", "Polish Science Review" and a member of the management of "Passato e Presente". He is a peer reviewer of "Business History", "Business History Review "," Economic History Review "," Journal of Accounting ", and numerous Italian contemporary history journals. His main interests are the history of family capitalism, the international dimension of the economy, banking history and corporate governance from a historical perspective.