Teaching Staff-test

Team members and Experts

  • Vanessa Manzetti: Vanessa Manzetti is Professor in Public Law Institutions Ius/09 (public selection sector 12/D1, Administrative Law), Department of Political Science. She was a visiting researcher at the European Court of Auditors (19-20 October 2016). She received the Italian National Qualification as associate professor in the framework of scientific sector 12/D1 – Administrative law. She is also a member of the professor committee of Juridical Science Doctorate at the University of Pisa. Since May 2019, she is the coordinator and professor in charge for JM Module “Protecting the EU’s Financial Interest: the role of European Court of Auditors and the cooperation with Italian Court of Auditors» and Director of the international summer school on “Public auditing and accountability”, jointly organized with the ECA to train EU and national auditors on transformation of audit. She carried out research activities in the framework of the International Symposium held in Poitiers on 9 and 10 November 2017 on “Les regroupements dans l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche”; scientific directors proff. Emmanuel Aubin, EmmanuelPie Guiselin. Les doctorats industriels en Italie : une intégration imparfaite du modèle européen (November 2017 – January 2018). She is the author of numerous publications about administrative controls on the management of local public bodies with a constant comparison with the European legal system.
  • Giovanna Colombini: Giovanna Colombini is full professor in Public Law at the University of Pisa, Department of Political Science. Since 2019, Member of the Auditors Committee in the Italian National Anticorruption Authority (ANAC).Since 2017, person in charge on behalf of the University of Pisa forthe “Memorandum of Understanding of the European Court of Auditors – University of Pisa”.Since 2016, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Council of the Continuing Education Legal Seminar for the Training of the Court of Auditors Magistrates.From 2016 to 2018, Member of the Managing Committee of the Presidency – Italian Court of Auditors. From 2010 to 2018, person in charge for the Programme of Administrative Law and Law&Economics in the Doctoral School in Law, Pisa University. From 2015 to 2016, President of the Disciplinary Board and VicePresident of the Managing Committee of the Presidency – Italian Court of Auditors. From 2007 to 2013, Director of the Doctoral School in Law, Pisa University. From 1999 to 2007, Director of the Department «Institutions, Enterprises and Market». In the same years, person in charge for the juridical area of the Pisa University and Member of the Committee of Directors. From 2000 to 2002, Vice-Rector for juridical issues of Pisa University. For her scientific results and academic activities, in the 2009 she was appointed Member of the «Ordine del Cherubino», the most important honour of Pisa University.
  • Sara Poli: Sara Poli is full professor of EU law at the University of Pisa (Italy), Department of Political Science where she teaches EU law and the Law of EU external relations. She is currently a member of the Jean Monnet networks EUDIPLO and EUCTER. She has held a Jean Monnet Chair between 2013 and 2016. She has worked for Universities of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Trieste and Southampton (UK). She has carried out research with the support of the DAD short term fellowship, Robert Schuman fellowship (EUI), the Marie Curie fellowship (EUI), the Fulbright-Schuman fellowship and the Belgian ‘Vlac fellowship’. She has been teaching assistant in the Department of European Legal Studies of the College of Europe (Bruges). She has published in many areas of EU law, including internal market and competition law, institutional aspects and legal remedies, free movements of persons and EU external relations. She has published in English and Italian.
  • Cristina Balleis: is a law professor at the Faculty of Economics and Law at the University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg, Germany, which she joined in 2002. After a year abroad in Paris/France (1987/88) she studied for the bar in Passau/Germany with additional training in French and Spanish law. After her Doctor of Laws (1995) and her legal clerkship, she worked six years as a lawyer in Bamberg, Germany. With her colleague Alexandra Angress she wrote two volumes on English civil law. At the university she teaches civil law, public law, EU law and international law. Her research focuses on EU law. Since 2015 she has been the gender equality officer. As such she is part of the university’s management and heads the universitywide office for family’s and women’s affairs.
  • Aldo Carosi: is honorary Vice-President of the Italian ConstituionalCourt, where he was formerly judge and Vice-President from 2016to 2020. He has prepared rulings mainly in the areas of administrative law,public finance, regional law, accounting law, tax law, State liability,in terms of violation of the reasonable time limit of the trial, in termsof State aid. He has been an accounting magistrate of the Italian Court ofAuditors since 1990.Since 2020, he is the director of the School of Advanced Training (Scuola di Alta Formazione) “F. Staderini” at the Italian Court of Auditors.
  • Pietro Russo: is a member of the European Court of Auditors since1 March 2012. He is a member of Chamber II — “Investment forcohesion, growth and inclusion”. He has been an accounting magistrate at the Italian Court ofAuditors since 1985; from 1991 to 1992 he was called as an expertto ECA in the office responsible for auditing the European Regional Development Fund. From 1993 to 2003 he was head of cabinet ofthe Italian member of ECA. In 2003 he returned to Italy, working inthe Chamber for the Control of the Administration of the State ofthe Italian Court of Auditors and becoming a member of the JointChambers (Sezioni Riunite).He has been lecturer in conferences and seminars on Europeanlaw, with regard to the control of the European budget and the fightagainst fraud. He is the author of numerous rulings and articlespublished in Italian and foreign legal journals in the fields of civillaw, civil procedural law, administrative law, public accounting, and comparative law and European Union law. He was adjunct professor at the University of Catania.
  • Luisa Azzena: Luisa Azzena (1965) is Associate Professor of Institutions of Public Law in the Department of Law at the University of Pisa. In 2013, she obtained the qualification of First Professorship in Constitutional Law (12/C1). In 2020, following re-evaluation by order of the Council of State, she obtained the qualification for the 2013 round as First-Band Professor in Administrative Law (12/D1). She graduated from the University of Pisa with a degree in Constitutional Law (1989) and received a PhD in Public Law from the University of Florence (1995), subsequently being awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in legal subjects. She attended the Seminar of Parliamentary Studies “S. Tosi” sponsored by the University of Florence in collaboration with the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic (1990). She completed an internship at the Court of Justice of the European Community, in Luxembourg, in the cabinet of Italian Judge Prof. Federico Mancini (1994). She became Researcher of Institutions of Public Law (2001) and then Associate Professor (2003) at the Faculty of Economics, University of Pisa, where she taught Public Law, Administrative Law, Public Law of Economics, Regional and Local Government Law, and Territorial Government. He currently belongs to the Department of Law at the University of Pisa, where he holds the course in European Administrative Law and Public Contracts. He also teaches courses in Administrative Law at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa and in Institutions of Public Law at the University Logistics Systems Pole of Livorno, Degree Course in Economics and Legislation of Logistics Systems. He is a member of the Doctoral Council in Legal Sciences at the University of Pisa. He has lectured extensively and participated in numerous conferences. He is a member of the Italian Association of Constitutionalists, the Pisa Group Association, the Astrid Association, and the Comparative and European Public Law Association. He is on the editorial board of the Pisa branch of the journal Comparative and European Public Law. He has published essays and articles mainly on the protection of fundamental rights, relations between domestic and supranational systems, constitutional justice, and relations between citizens and public authorities. He has participated in several Prin, with publications in collected volumes, on the European Constitution, public heritage and cultural goods, economic and social cohesion policy, university financing, and sources of law. He has produced monographic studies, “Integration through Rights. Dal cittadino italiano al cittadino europeo,” Turin, Giappichelli, 1998; “La rilevanza nel sindacato di costituzionalità dalle origini alla dimensione europea,” Naples, Jovene, 2012; “L’Università italiana. L’attuazione del disegno costituzionale tra tecnica e politica,” Naples, ES, 2013; “L’espropriazione per pubblica utilità e i provvedimenti ablatori,” Turin, Giappichelli, 2021; “Indennizzo e proprietà,” Pisa, ETS, 2021. He is a lawyer (1992) registered in the Special Register of Professors at the Pisa Bar.
  • Laura d’Ambrosio
  • Francesco Sucameli: Accounting magistrate with training in constitutionalism, with a focus on the process of European integration, in relation to which he earned a first doctorate. After having developed, through long professional experiences, expertise in economic law (banking supervision law and competition law) he came to the accounting judiciary. He mainly deals with issues related to the violation of administrative rules that preside over the financial activity of the state (public accounting). Given the nature of his jurisdiction, he delved into issues related to the public use of private law, earning a second doctorate as part of which he developed a study on the phenomenon of abuse of legal forms for purposes incompatible with the principles of the accounting system. Author of several publications and active scientific popularizer, he is currently Adjunct Professor in Constitutional Law, at LUMSA in Palermo.
  • Giovanni Coppola: is currently President of the Audit Chamber of European and International Affairs at the Italian Court of Auditors. He graduated in law at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza” in 1978 with honour. Since 1993, he has been Counsellor of the Italian Court of Auditors, but since 2011 he has been Head of the International Relations Office. Regarding international activity, he has actively participated in the negotiations that led to the insertion in the Treaty establishing the E. S. M – and in the consequent By law, of the provision of an External Auditor. From 1 January 2020 he is delegate for the audit on financial management of the company FSI S.p.A.-Italian Railways Holding, according to the art.12, law n. 259/1958. Among the various teaching assignments, he was lecturer in Summer School 2021 – Public Auditing and Accountability.
  • Eduardo Ruiz Garcia: Eduardo Ruiz Garcia is currently manager at INTOSAI Development Organization and former member and secretary general of the European Court of Auditors for over thirty years. He is a member of the working group on Audit and Ethics at the European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI) as well. He carries out academic activity at the University of Castilla-LaMancha as visiting professor. He is the author of numerous scientific articles on public finance, its implications with ethics, as well as controls on public management.
  • Maria Teresa Polito
  • Benjamin Jakob
  • Giuseppe Pisauro: Giuseppe Pisauro is the president of the Parliamentary Budget Office. Full professor of Finance Science at Sapienza, University of Rome (currently out of tenure). He holds a B.A. in Statistical and Demographic Sciences from La Sapienza in Rome and an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics. He previously taught at the University of Perugia and LUISS in Rome. He was a member of the Technical Commission on Public Expenditure at the Ministry of the Treasury (1991- 2003) and the Technical Commission on Public Finance at the MEF (2007-2008). Rector of the Higher School of Economics and Finance (2006-2014). He has consulted for national and international institutions (such as the Presidency of the Republic and the International Monetary Fund). His research interests mainly concern fiscal policy, the budget process and government spending programs. He has published in international and Italian journals, such as Journal of Public Economics, International Journal of Public Administration, European Journal of Political Economy, Politica economica, and Journal of Financial Law and Finance Science.
  • Pasquale Ferro: He is Senior Director at the Central Administration of the Bank of Italy – Markets and Payment Systems Department and Deputy Head of the State Treasury Service (designated Head of the Service since December 1, 2015).Main responsibilities pertain to state budget issues, state treasury management, public payments and Treasury requirements, and public finance.He has coordinated numerous projects concerning the reform of the State Treasury and, among them, those concerning the implementation of the Telematic State Treasury and the Information System on Public Entity Operations (SIOPE).He is a member of working groups external and internal to the Bank of Italy and has participated in several surveys conducted by the Bank of Italy to survey progress in the diffusion of information and communication technologies in electronic payments and networked activities, with specific reference to businesses and public administrations, as well as to assess the degree of computerization of local administrations.He has participated in seminars, including at the international level, on the issues of public budgeting, state treasury, public administration reform and in the field of ICT diffusion in public administration (e-government) and the payments system.He is the author of numerous publications on state treasury, public payments, innovation and the use of ICT for the development of the payments system. He has also published studies on the history of the Bank of Italy, public administration reform and international competitiveness, state budget and treasury reform, and the use of the information system on transactions of public entities (SIOPE).
  • Roman Escolano
  • Claudia Cinelli
  • Sara Panelli
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