Fabio Rugge
Fabio Rugge (born 1951 in Lecce) is an Italian historian, academic and provost. In June 2013 he was elected rector of the University of Pavia.[1]
Biography
After matriculating from the Liceo classico G. Palmieri in Lecce, he attended the Classical University of the Sacred Heart in Milan where he graduated in Political Science. He embarked on his academic career in 1977 at the Department of Sociology at the University of Trento. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University of Berlin (1986), Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (1996) and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2012).[2]
He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Social Science Council and has served for seven years on the History of Administration working group of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences in Brussels. Since 1991, he has also been part of the scientific committee of the Istituto per la Scienza dell'Amministrazione Pubblica in Milan.[3]
In addition to Italian, Rugge speaks and writes in English, French and German. His areas of interest are governmental institutions and public administrations which he analyzes in a historical context, comparing developments in different European countries. His works have been widely published in book form and journals. He sits on the editorial boards of several journals including Il Politico, Grotius, and Storia Amministrazione Costituzione (which he co-directs). From 2005 to 2011, he headed the Department of Political Science at the University of Pavia. He is on the board of the G. Romagnosi Foundation, which he helped to found in 2003 and chaired until 2011.[2]
In 2006, Rugge became a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.[4]
References
- ^ "Pavia, Rugge rettore alla quarta votazione" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera, accessed via Archiviostorico.corriere.it. 19 June 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b "Eletto il Rettore dell'Università di Pavia: è Fabio Rugge" (in Italian). Università di Pavia. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ^ "Un professore leccese, Fabio Rugge, eletto Rettore dell'Università di Pavia" (in Italian). LeccePrima. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- ^ "Rugge Prof. Fabio" (in Italian). Presidenza della Repubblica. Retrieved 2 January 2014.