Giovanni Valotti

Giovanni Valotti is a Full Professor of Economics and Management of the public administration at the Department of Social and Political sciences at Università Bocconi.

Since January 2017, he has been the Liaison Officer for the Department of Government, Health and Not for Profit at SDA Bocconi School of Management and since 2021 and project manager of the SDA4GOV initiative. He managed several research, education and consulting projects for public entities.

His research activities focus on strategic repositioning and management renewal of Italian and foreign companies and public administrations. In his studies, he has focused on several themes, including the institutional framework of the definition of development strategies and organizational models of government departments, public enterprises, and healthcare organizations; the definition of corporate governance models of institutions and public enterprises and the definition of the strategy and the evaluation of performance in healthcare companies.

He is the author of numerous books and articles on his topics of interest. His works have been published in Public Administration Review (PAR), Governance, American Review of Public Administration and Public Administration among others. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Azienda Pubblica and of the Scientific Committee of the journal Management delle Utilities.He has collaborated with central administrations and worked, at a local level, with a number of local authorities. He has been the Chairman of MM SpA. A2A SpA and Utilitalia. He won the Annual Research Excellence Award (Università Bocconi, 2011) and the Utilities Management Award – Local Public Services (a2a, 2015). He has published several articles in the Italian national newspapers Il Corriere della Sera and Il Sole 24 Ore.

Giovanni earned a degree in Business Economics from the Università degli Studi di Brescia.

Teaching domains

• Government Reform
• Public Governance
• Performance Management
• Public Utilities Management and Regulation
• Strategic HR

Latest publications

CRISTOFOLI D., TRIVELLATO B., MICACCHI M., VALOTTI G. Finally Throwing Those Wellies Away? Collaborating in Search of a Solution for Venice Flooding Environmental Management, 2022

VIDÈ F., MICACCHI L., BARBIERI M., VALOTTI G. The Renaissance of Performance Appraisal: Engaging Public Employees Through Perceived Developmental Purpose and Justice Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2022, pp.0734371X2211165

CRISTOFOLI D., CUCINELLI D., MICACCHI M., TRIVELLATO B., TURRINI A., VALOTTI G. “One, none and a hundred thousand ” recipes for a robust response to turbulence Public Administration, 2022

GIACOMELLI G., ROTA S., VALOTTI G. Misurare per migliorare le performance nella PA italiana Economia & Management, 2022, no. 2, pp.106-111

VALOTTI G. (ED.) Reactive PA. Lezioni dalla Pandemia per il Cambiamento della Pubblica Amministrazione Egea, Milano, Italy, 2022

GIACOMELLI G., ROTA S., VALOTTI G. Cultura dell’orientamento al risultato, reattività e velocità dell’azione pubblica in Reactive PA. Lezioni dalla Pandemia per il Cambiamento della Pubblica Amministrazione G. Valotti (Eds),Egea, chap. 8, pp.205-232, 2022

Grants & Honors

• Research Grant “Progetti per una nuova pubblica amministrazione, raccolta di idee per orientare il cambiamento delle amministrazioni pubbliche” - SNA - Scuola Nazionale dell'Amministrazione , 2020
• Research Grant "Mappatura, valutazione e sviluppo delle competenze delle amministrazioni pubbliche" - SNA - Scuola Nazionale dell'Amministrazione , 2019
• Co-Val Understanding value co-creation in pubic services for trasforming European public administration, EU H2020 - European Commission , 2017
• Research Grant "Avviso per la promozione di progetti sperimentali e innovativi in materia di misurazione e valutazione della performance" - Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri , 2017
• Utilities Management Award, Rivista Management delle Utilities , 2015
• Research Excellence Award - Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi , 2011