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Alberto Felice De Toni (born 26 June 1955) is an Italian academic and engineer.

Studies and academic career
After his scientific high school diploma, he graduated in 1980 in Chemical Engineering at the University of Padua. He worked at ENI Ricerche in San Donato Milanese and other industrial groups until 1983, when he enrolled in the first cycle of the PhD in Industrial Innovation Sciences at the University of Padua. He obtained the PhD in 1986.

In 1987 he became a Researcher in Economic-Management Engineering at the University of Udine, where he became associate professor in 1992 and full professor in 2000.

At the same University, he was President of the Degree Course in Management Engineering from 2000 to 2006 and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 2006 to 2012.

He has directed several post graduate Master courses. Since 2015 he is Director of the Master Project Management: Managing Complexity.

He was Rector of the University of Udine from 2013 to 2019.

From 2015 to 2018 he was Secretary General of the National Conference of Italian University Rectors.

As part of The Magnificent Meetings - promoted by CRUI – held on 29th and 30th June 2017 in Udine, on the occasion of the Conoscenza in Festa event, he organized with the sponsorship of MIUR the G7 University - Education for All. During this event, the representatives of more than 170 universities and organizations from Europe, America and Asia have developed the so-called "Udine G7 University Manifesto".

He was President of AIIG - Italian Association of Management Engineering in the statutory two-year period from 2009 to 2011.

Other assignments
He was Vice President of Trieste AREA Science Park from 2002 to 2006 and President of the Agency for Economic Development of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Mountain from 2005 to 2010.

He was President of the MIUR National Commission for the Reorganization of Technical and Professional Education from 2007 to 2011.

Since 2010 he has been a member of the Committee for the Development of Scientific and Technological Culture promoted by MIUR and since 2017 he has been a member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of the Initiatives for the dissemination of the scientific culture of MIUR.

He was President of the Independent Evaluation Body of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità from 2015 to 2018.

Since 2018 he is President of the CINECA Evaluation Body.

From 1st January 2019 he is Scientific Director of CUOA.

Since 2019 he is a member of the Strategic Steering Committee of the EUI - European University Institute.

Since 20th February 2019 he is President of the CRUI Foundation, Conference of Italian University Rectors.

Publications
The research activity, which resulted in over 300 scientific publications, concerned the field of Management Engineering with particular attention to operations management, innovation management and complexity management. Following a selection of publications:


 * De Toni A. F., Comello L., Prede o ragni. Uomini e organizzazioni nella ragnatela della complessità, UTET, Torino, 2005.
 * De Toni A. F. et al. (editors), International Operations Management. Lessons in Global Business, Gower Publishing Limited, England, 2011.
 * De Toni A. F., Comello L. & Ioan L., Auto-organizzazioni. Il mistero dell’emergenza nei sistemi fisici, biologici e sociali, Marsilio Editori, Venezia, 2011.
 * De Toni A. F., Siagri R. & Battistella, Corporate foresight: Anticipating the Future, Routledge, Routledge - Taylor & Francis, London, 2017.
 * Alberto F. De Toni, Roberto Panizzolo, Sistemi di gestione della produzione, Isedi, Torino, 2018.