At the beginning of his career he could never imagine that in the future he would be called to fill institutional roles. Now that he has spent a few years doing so, he considers it almost a duty of responsibility and, more generally, an experience that he recommends. Paolo Pinotti, Full Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, has recently taken the post of Dean of the Faculty but has already fill managerial roles as director of the CLEAN research lab and coordinator of the Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation. “I love doing research, but at a certain point it's also nice to vary, to look for other challenges. Bocconi has also been facing a great change, opening up to whole new disciplinary areas. And it is stimulating to talk with faculty members from such a wide array of different disciplines”. Research and academic career were not on his mind as a child. For him, enrolling at Bocconi was more a way of keeping options open and postpone the decision on what to do "when you grow up". "The change came when I prepared my degree thesis with Guido Tabellini. The topic was privatizations and there I realized that research really interested me".

 

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