Valentina Mele

Valentina Mele is an Associate Professor at Università Bocconi and Associate Professor at SDA Bocconi School of Management. At SDA Bocconi she has been head of and professor in several courses including Public Governance, Business-government Relations, Corporate Citizenship, International Organizations and the Mangement of International Development. She has taught participants of Executive programs in business, in public management and health and international organizations.

Her research activities focus on organization and technological innovation in public organizations; governance and business-government relations; corporate citizenship and cross-sector partnerships; international governance and international organizations. Her work has been published in high impact journals including the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration, Governance, the International Public Management Journal, the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Business Ethics and Public Management Review among others. Valentina has received several competitive individual grants including the Fulbright studentship and scholarship, the CNR study grant, the CNR short-term mobility grant, and several awards including the Award for excellence in research at Bocconi (7 times), the International Geneva Award (2011 and 2015) and the Best Published Paper, OMT Academy of Management (2016).

She serves as Field Editor for the Journal of Public Policy (Cambridge University Press) and she is an editorial board member of Public Administration Review and Governance.She has been a member of the Sustainability Advisory Board, European Alluminium Association and she serves on the Sustainability Board Committee of a company listed on the Milan stock market. Valentina earned an MSc in Economics and Management of Government & International Organizations from Università Bocconi, a Master in Public Policy & Administration from Columbia University and a PhD in Management from the London School of Economics . She is married with two children.

Teaching domains

• Public Affairs Management
• Corporate Sustainability
• Government Reform
• Public Governance

Latest publications

BARBIERI M., MELE V., VIDÈ F. Le prospettive dello smart working nella PA: riflessioni e spunti in Reactive PA. Lezioni dalla Pandemia per il Cambiamento della Pubblica Amministrazione G. Valotti (Eds),Egea, chap. 9, pp.239-255, 2022

MELE V., BELLÉ N., CUCCINIELLO M. Thanks, but No Thanks: Preferences towards Teleworking Colleagues in Public Organizations Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2021, vol.31, no. 4, pp.790-805

MELE V., ESTEVE M., LEE S., BEL G., CAPPELLARO G., PETROVSKY N., OSPINA S. M. Enhancing Methodological Reporting in Public Administration: The Functional Equivalents Framework The American Review of Public Administration, 2020, vol.50, no. 8, pp.811-824

BERTELLI A. M., MELE V., WOODHOUSE E. F. Corruption, Democracy, and Privately Financed Infrastructure Administration & Society, 2020

OSBORNE S., MELE V., BRANDSEN T., NEMEC J., VAN GENUGTEN M., FLEMIG S. Risking innovation. Understanding risk and public service innovation—evidence from a four nation study Public Money & Management, 2020, vol.40, no. 1, pp.52-62

BERTELLI A. M., MELE V., WHITFORD A. When new public management fails: infrastructure public–private partnerships and political constraints in developing and transitional economies Governance, 2020, vol.33, no. 3, pp.477-493