ELITE NETWORKING AND INTEGRATION OF COMPETENCES
GIOYA Higher Education Institution founders strongly believe that, in an interconnected world, education plays the most critical role in ensuring that people feel part of a larger community and they can value and recognize the impact of their actions and businesses on others.
ELITE NETWORKING AND INTEGRATION OF COMPETENCES
GIOYA Higher Education Institution founders strongly believe that, in an interconnected world, education plays the most critical role in ensuring that people feel part of a larger community and they can value and recognize the impact of their actions and businesses on others.
Strategic Team “Senate”
The strategic management and governing structure of GIOYA HEI is led by GIOYA board and is supported by a strategic team “senate”. The strategic team provides scientific and strategic support and it will oversee the internal quality of the Higher Education Institution.
Maurits Van Rooijen
Chair of the Strategic Team and Board member
Chair of the GY HEI Strategic Team Plenary session, he is full Professor and Chairman of GISMA’s Board of Governors, Chief Academic Officer (CAO) of Global University Systems, and Rector of the University of Europe for Applied Sciences, Germany. In addition to these roles, he is the Board Chair for IBAT College Dublin, Ireland. He was awarded the Constance Meldrum prize for Vision and Leadership from the European Association for International Education (EAIE) and the Insignia d’Ouro of the Universidade Santiago de Compostela
Julio Andrade Ruiz
He serves as Director of CIFAL/UNITAR Malaga. He is the President of the Executive Commission of the Forum for the Peace in the Mediterranean. He has been the Vice President of the Gender Equality Commission of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and previously he was Vice President of the Commission on Security and Citizen Conviviality of FEMP. He has served the municipality of Malaga during 21 years, ten of them, as a Manager, and eleven as a Counselor and Deputy Mayor until the present year. Currently, he is Technical Director for Relations with International Organizations in the Municipality of Malaga
Evarist Bartolo
He served until March 2022 as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta and previously was Minister for Education and Employment. He has been a member in Parliament since 1992, working mostly in education, European affairs and tourism. Between 1996 and 1998 he served as Minister of Education and National Culture under a Labour Government. He has lectured in communication studies at University of Malta and he has recently being appointed honorary professor at University of Shanghai of Political Science and Law.
Stefano Bresciani
He is full professor in Business Management at the Department of Management, University of Turin, where he teaches Business Management and Innovation Management. His main areas of research include business, innovation and strategic management, areas that he has published in many refereed journal articles, contributed chapters and books and presented papers to conferences on a global basis. He is leading different research centeres (i.e. EROIC, Q-Institute Reasearch center, EuroMed Research Business Institute, KMIRC….) and in member of different boards (i.e. ESPC, Italy).H
Jean Paul Laborde
Currently Ambassador for the Parliamentary Assembly of Mediterranean and Professor at the French Military Academy and chairs the activities on cybersecurity/ cyberdefense and is the director of the Centre of expertise on CT Activities. Jean-Paul Laborde was the Head of the Secretariat for the negotiations of the Transnational Organized Crime Convention at the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) Vienna before assuming the functions of Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations in New-York as Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate at the UN Security Council until 31 July 2017.
Patrizia Polliotto
She graduated in law at the University of Turin and the school of notaries in Milan and Rome. Since 2007 she has been a lawyer in the Italian Supreme Court. Polliotto is known for her extensive experience in holding top positions in Italian multinational companies. She has been a liquidator, auditor, president, independent director and member board of directors for companies such as IREN Group, Finmeccanica, Compagnia di San Paolo, Juventus, Zucchi, Chairperson at Instituto Ortopedico Galeazzi spa (which include Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio Orthopedic Institute and the San Siro), among others. In August 2021, Forbes named Polliotto among the top four women who have brought prestige to the world of corporate responsibility in Italy.
Lucio Tonello
He is Full Professor at GIOYA HEI where is also supporting the Strategic Team in internal quality matters. He is a researcher at the Center for Nonlinear Science at the University of North Texas (Denton, Texas, US). His main topics are related to Neuroscience in a trans-disciplinary perspective and he is author of more than 150 scientific publications. He is a fellow of the Research and Development Department of the Italian Motorsport Authority Federal School.
